英语词汇“a、tilt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

a-tilt

释义

a-tilt, advb. phr.|əˈtɪlt|
[a prep.¹ (in sense 2, perh. at prep.) + tilt.]
1. Tilted up, set on tilt, in such a position that it is just ready to fall over. Also fig.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 194 We apply the spigot, till tubbe stande a tilte.1735Pope Donne Sat. iv. 176 In that nice moment, as another lye Stood just a-tilt.1881Payn Grape fr. Thorn xiv, Sitting with his chair atilt.
2. In phr. to run (or ride) a-tilt: i.e. in an encounter on horseback with the thrust of a lance. Now usually fig. of controversial encounters. Const. at, with, against. [The origin of a- is here uncertain.]
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 51 Breake a Launce, and runne a-Tilt at Death.16082nd Pt. Def. Reas. Refus. Subscript. 52 [He] taketh heart to run at Tilt a fresh.1702S. Parker Tully's De Fin. 31 Impetuously as they run atilt against other people.1862Sir H. Taylor St. Clem. Eve iii. iii. Wks. 1864 III. 149 He rode a-tilt and smote the scaly Dragon.1873Burton Hist. Scot. V. lv. 94 A paper in defense of queen Mary's honour, in which he ran atilt with Buchanan.

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