atilt
About 0.01 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
The child listened, her head atilt.
- adverb At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.
He wore his hat rakishly atilt.
- adverb Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).
to run / ride atilt at someone or something
- preposition Diagonally over or across.
Similar words
inclined canted leaning tilted tipped slanted listing biased sidelong enclined
Often followed by
like against on at in and
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