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Meanings of atilt in inglés

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

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        Usage of atilt in inglés
        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