simple past tense and past participle of tilt at windmills

In a piggish manner.

(Australia, New Zealand) An assistant to a crane operator, responsible for securing the crane's load and directing the operator.

(transitive, intransitive) To connect together by interlocking, as gears do. / (intransitive, figuratively, by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously. / (transitive) To catch in a mesh.