TIPT

Verb

tipt

(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of tip

Anagrams

• Pitt, TTIP

Source: Wiktionary


TIP

Tip, n. Etym: [Akin to D. & Dan. tip, LG. & Sw. tipp, G. zipfel, and probably to E. tap a plug, a pipe.]

1. The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear. To the very tip of the nose. Shak.

2. An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

3. (Hat Manuf.)

Definition: A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.

4. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.

5. Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

Tip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tipping.]

Definition: To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver. With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras. Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. Thomson.

Tip, v. t. Etym: [Cf. LG. tippen to tap, Sw. tippa, and E. tap to strike gently.]

1. To strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.

2. To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

3. To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart. To tip off, to pour out, as liquor.

– To tip over, to overturn.

– To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope.

– To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.

Tip, v. i.

Definition: To fall on, or incline to, one side. Bunyan. To tip off, to fall off by tipping.

Tip, n. Etym: [See Tip to strike slightly, and cf. Tap a slight blow.]

1. A light touch or blow; a tap.

2. A gift; a douceur; a fee. [Colloq.]

3. A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like. [Sporting Cant]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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