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Meanings of atilt in English

Departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal.

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Usage of atilt in English
1
Each rested atilt, one wing on the ground, the other extending into the air.
Good things I wish you
2
On one of the trees a robin sang and watched him with its head atilt.
Mary Minds Her Business
3
When I looked up he was atilt upon the branch of an apple tree near by.
My Robin
4
The arrows first, had been his hope, and then this silent vulture, atilt in the purple tides.
As It Was in the Beginning
5
Duskily-lashed eyes of dark violet were brimming with a contagious energy and her rounded chin was splendidly atilt.
A Pagan of the Hills
6
Near the house torches lined the driveway, some still lit, a few atilt and smoking, but most burned out.
Venus In Copper
7
In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.
A Traveller in War-Time
8
Diana had worked with a very rapid lens and had caught them atilt, in the full abandonment of the child to joy in motion.
The Enchanted Canyon
Atilt through the time