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  • n  someone who engages in a tilt or joust
  • n  a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs

  • It is rather that he too is a merchant of slightly skewed dreams, a tilter at his industry's conventional wisdom and a man who is himself a typical American genius, half visionary .
  • In 1959 Morris Milgram, a product of New York's Lower East Side and an ar dent tilter at the windmills of social injustice, announced plans for a 51-home development in Deerfield.
  • For a while, Detroit regarded him as a mere windmill tilter.

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