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Definition of Tilters
1. tilter [n] - See also: tilter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tilters
Literary usage of Tilters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Christ by John Patterson Coyle, George A. Gates (1896)
"THE WINE-tilters. Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on
his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he ..."
2. The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities, of King James the by John Nichols (1828)
"287); but those two are found in no other list but the present, nor in that of
the names of those who had been tilters before the year 1618, printed in vol. ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1846)
"The knight who was struck did not swerve an inch from his horse, but missed his
blow against his adversary—a circumstance which occurs to bad tilters, ..."
4. Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries: From the by Jean Froissart, Thomas Johnes (1849)
"They finished their course, throwing down their lances, and completed their career
like good tilters, in excellent array to their posts. ..."
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