tilt

tilt
\ \ [14] Tilt originally meant ‘fall over’; the sense ‘slant’ is not recorded before the 16th century.
\ \ The word is probably descended from an unrecorded Old English *tyltan, whose ultimate source would have been the prehistoric Germanic adjective *taltazunsteady’ (ancestor also of Swedish tultatotter’). Tiltjoust’ (first recorded in the 16th century) has traditionally been regarded as the same word, based presumably on the notion of making one’s opponent ‘fall over’, but this is not certain.

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