At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.
He wore his hat rakishly atilt.
Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).
to run / ride atilt at someone or something
Diagonally over or across.
A butterfly flew into the garden, danced a stately minuet mid-air, courtsied, and settled atilt the top rail of the old “snake fence.”
From a- + tilt.
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