atilt
At an angle from the vertical or horizontalAt an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
Meaning
1 senses(not comparable)At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
The child listened, her head atilt.
1954, Allen Ginsberg, Journal entry in Gordon Ball (ed.), Journals, New York: Grove, 1977, p. 70, Pink bedroom lamp, shade atilt over Uncle Abe’s ancient clean radio,
departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal