Word: tilting
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...light two-wheeled carriage for a single horse, typically seating four persons, back to back. "Jaunt" originally referred to the prancing or "jaunting" of the horse, which makes a two-wheeled car jolt and tilt somewhat rakishly. By association the verb "to jaunt" came to mean the taking of a short pleasure ride...
Suzanne Lenglen, with a shaking hand, tilted to her lips a long amber glass. The touch of her hand frosted the glass, for she was very hot; only a mad woman would imbibe iced liquors at such a time?a mad woman, or a French woman. Onetime King Manuel of Portugal, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, ex-King George of Greece, the Rajah of Pudukkottia, watched the amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass...
...Fascist organ L'Impero cried: "The Mussolini-Stresemann tilt was a dialog between an Eagle and a Crow?an encounter between Rapier and Paunch...
...Freshman basketball five scored its sixth victory for this year in its hard fought tilt with a fast schoolboy team from Loomis yesterday...
...favorite hunter, a fleet and mettlesome mount named "Oh, Dear." Vaulting into his saddle he nodded to the Duke of Rutland and set off after the latter's famed Belvoir hounds. A lengthy chase ensued, in which "Oh, Dear" and Edward swooped over many a hazard, galloped at full tilt across the downs of Melton Mowbray, distanced His Grace of Rutland completely...