tilter

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From tilt + -er.

The consequence was that in less than a couple of hours almost all the tilters were cleaned out, and had to become mere lookers-on. — The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California, Gustave Aimard
He had been a bold and dashing cavalier in his youth, a famous tilter in tournaments in his middle age, and a hard-fighting soldier all his life. — South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure, Cyrus Townsend Brady
This, as I conceive, might occasion his retirement from Court next summer, 1580, wherein, perhaps, he wrote that pleasant romance called “Arcadia.”[i07] In 1581 the treaty of marriage was renewed, and our author, Sidney, with Fulke Greville,[i08] were two of the tilters at the entertainment of the French Ambassador; and at the departure of the Duke of Anjou from England, in February of the same year, he attended him to Antwerp. — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney

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