tilt-up

[ tilt-uhp ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Building Trades.

of or relating to a method of casting concrete walls on site in a horizontal position or preassembling wooden wall and partition frames, then tilting them up into their final position:
tilt-up construction.

Origin of tilt-up¹

First recorded in 1840–50; adj. use of verb phrase tilt up

Then the Limpet's shell may be seen to tilt up, and a foot, and a head with feelers and eyes, come out.

They weighed down the back of his head so that it made his nose tilt up in the air.

He proceeded to see if by making the planet librate, or the plane of its orbit tilt up and down, anything could be done.

Emotion No. 4: the servants, with all their heads out of the window, spied a carriage coming full tilt up the street.

With the velocity and abandon of a French dragoon, he galloped full tilt up toward the barranca.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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