▪ I. tipped, tipt, ppl. a.1
(tɪpt)
[f. tip n.1 or v.3 But perh. a. ON. typptr tipped, from typpa to tip.]
† 1. (Meaning uncertain.)
Quot. c 1300 may belong to sense 2; but it looks rather like ‘having the tips cut off, clipt’. Quot. 13.. is glossed by editor ‘extreme’, which seems improbable.
| c 1300 [see tippet 1 a]. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. C. 77 He telles me þose traytoures arn typped schrewes. |
2. Having a tip, pointed; furnished or adorned with a tip, or with something at the tip.
| c 1386 Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 83 Tipped was his tayl, and bothe hise eeris With blak. c 1470 Henryson Mor. Fab. ix. (Wolf & Fox) vi, My tippit twa eiris, and my twa gray Ene. 1483 Cath. Angl. 389/1 Typped, cornutatus. 1888 Berks. Gloss., Tipped an' naailed. Boots for field wear have the soles thus furnished. |
† 3. tipped staff. a. A staff tipped with metal: = tipstaff 1. Also tipped mace, tipped stick, tipped wand.
| c 1386 Chaucer Sompn. T. 29 With scrippe and tipped [v.r. typped] staf ytukked hye. 1485 Rutland Papers (Camden) 9 That the Marshall of England be well accompanyed with men having long tipped staves. 1574 Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 365 Nane suld tak upoun hand to execute ony chargeis without his blason, blawing horne and tippet wand. 1598 Marston Pygmal. iii. 148 Some spirit with a tippet Mace. 1617 Minsheu Voc. Hisp. Lat., Verguéro, a Vergier, one that carrieth a tipped stick before the Iustices..or the Deane. |
† b. An officer bearing such a staff: = tipstaff 2.
| 1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. 565 The Erle of Westmerlande, than newely made marshall, rode about the halle w{supt} many typped staues about hym. c 1500 God Speed the Plough 77 in P. Pl. Crede, etc. 71 Then commeth the tipped-staves for the Marshalse, And saye they haue prisoners mo than Inough. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 3 b, To Westminster hall..where by the Lord Marshall and his tipped staues, was made rome. |
4. = filter-tipped adj. s.v. filter n. 5. Also absol., filter-tipped cigarettes.
| 1964 M. Drabble Garrick Year ii. 27 ‘I don't smoke tipped,’ I said. Ibid. 28 He let me have the other Gauloise, and smoked the tipped cigarettes himself. 1972 Guardian 24 June 9/6 Have you got any cigarettes?.. Anything tipped. 1978 C. A. Berry Gentleman of Road ix. 81 The gamut of grades of the cigarette-ends, ranging from..the complete cigarette left in a thrown-away packet..to the abhorred tipped variety and the trodden-out stub. |
5. Bookbinding. Of a leaf, plate, etc.: inserted in a book by attaching to another leaf with a narrow strip of paste at the inner edge. Usu. with in. Cf. tip v.2 2 d; tip-in 1.
| 1912 A. J. Philip Business of Bookbinding 217/2 Tipped-in, when a leaf, illustration, map, etc., is pasted in without guarding it is said to be tipped in. 1952 J. Carter ABC for Book-Collectors 175 Tipped in, lightly attached, by gum or paste, usually at the inner edge. 1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells v. 47, I bought a book with tipped-in colour plates. 1966 H. Williamson Methods Bk. Design (ed. 2) xix. 322 Unless the tipping is very accurate.., the tipped plate will raise the text page to which it is attached when it is turned. 1977 W. Matheson in Q. Jrnl. Libr. Congr. July 233/2 The collector's difficulties are further complicated by the fact that the tipped-in plates by Augustus Peck are sometimes lacking. |
▪ II. tipped, tipt, ppl. a.2
[f. tip v.2 + -ed1.]
Inclined, tilted; overturned, upset; † drunken (obs. slang).
| 1708 T. Ward Eng. Ref. (1716) 174 In Songs Obscene and Tipt discourse. 1907 K. D. Wiggin New Chron. Rebecca iii, The good deacon sat..in his tipped-back chair. |