A female given name from the Germanic languages, short form of Matilda.

A person who sets tiles. / (Freemasonry) A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.

(intransitive) To attack imaginary enemies. / (intransitive, by extension) To go on a wild-goose chase; to persistently engage in a futile activity.

simple past tense and past participle of tile

Constructed from, or decorated with tiles. / (Freemasonry) Of a lodge, having been sealed against intrusions from unauthorised people.

With a lance.

A type of wooden barrier positioned lengthwise down the center of a jousting arena (known as the list or tiltyard), used during competitive jousting events to separate the combatants and to ensure that their steeds will follow a parallel trajectory from one end of the field to the other.

(rare) Alternative form of six ways to Sunday

A very hard ceramic tile used e.g. as flooring, usually 1/2 to 3/4 inches (13 to 19 mm) in thickness, made by the extrusion process from natural clays or shales.

(obsolete) A ridge-tile, a tile for the ridge of a roof. / A roofing tile.