Joust vs. Tilt — What's the Difference?

A combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances; a tilting match.

Move or cause to move into a sloping position

Jousts A series of tilting matches; a tournament.

(in jousting) thrust at with a lance or other weapon

A personal competition or combat suggestive of combat with lances

A sloping position or movement

To engage in mounted combat with lances; tilt.

A combat for exercise or sport between two men on horseback with lances; a joust.

To engage in a personal combat or competition.

A small hut in a forest.

A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.

To cause to slope, as by raising one end; incline

To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.

To cause to be advantageous to one party rather than another

To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally)

To aim or thrust (a lance) in a joust.

(slang) To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex.

To charge (an opponent); attack.

To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.

To forge with a tilt hammer.

To engage in a competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent.

To slope; incline

A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.

To have a preference, favor, or be inclined toward something

Any competition involving one-to-one struggle with an opponent.

To be advantageous to one side over another, as in a dispute

A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances

To fight with lances; joust.

Joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback

To engage in a combat or struggle; fight

To cover (a vehicle) with a canopy or an awning.

The act of tilting or the condition of being tilted.

An inclination from the horizontal or vertical; a slant

A sloping surface, as of the ground.

A tendency to favor one side in a dispute

A preference, inclination, or bias

A medieval sport in which two mounted knights with lances charged together and attempted to unhorse one another.

A thrust or blow with a lance.

A combat, especially a verbal one; a debate.

A tilt hammer.

New England See seesaw.

A canopy or an awning for a boat, wagon, or cart.

(transitive) To slope or incline (something); to slant.

(intransitive) To be at an angle.

To charge (at someone) with a lance.

(transitive) To point or thrust a weapon at.

(transitive) To point or thrust (a weapon).

To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.

To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).

(transitive) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

A slope or inclination.

The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.

(photography) The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.

A jousting contest. (countable)

An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.

A thrust, as with a lance.

A tilt hammer.

A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.

Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.

A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.

A thrust, as with a lance.

A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.

To cover with a tilt, or awning.

To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

To point or thrust, as a lance.

To point or thrust a weapon at.

To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.

To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.

A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances

A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement;

A slight but noticeable partiality;

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical;

Pitching dangerously to one side

To incline or bend from a vertical position;

Heel over;

Move sideways or in an unsteady way;

Charge with a tilt