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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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