Meaning of atilt | Babel Free

Definitions

At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.

not-comparable

Examples

“The child listened, her head atilt.”

“When I came to the river, I ached in sympathy with the shipping painfully atilt on the rock-like surface of the brine, which broke against the piers, and sprayed itself over them like showers of powdered quartz.”

“In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.”

“1954, Allen Ginsberg, Journal entry in Gordon Ball (ed.), Journals, New York: Grove, 1977, p. 70, Pink bedroom lamp, shade atilt over Uncle Abe’s ancient clean radio,”

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