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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