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Tilting

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
  2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
  3. A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting.

Equivalents

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Examples

“[…] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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