kip

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A maneuver in gymnastics, martial arts, and similar sports in which a person moves from lying on the back directly to a standing position by thrusting the legs upward and pushing off with hands placed palms-down near the ears.
• noun A unit of weight equal to 1,000 pounds (455 kilograms).
• noun The untanned hide of a small or young animal, such as a calf.
• noun A set or bundle of such hides.
• noun A rooming house.
• noun A place to sleep; a bed.
• noun Sleep.
• intransitive verb To sleep.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To snatch; take up hastily.
• To hold or keep: with together.
• To conduct one's self; act.
• noun In. coal-mining, a level or gently sloping outgoing roadway, at the extremity of an engine-plane, upon which the full tubs stand ready to be sent up the shaft.
• noun The hide of a young or small beast, as a lamb or calf. The term is also applied to the skins of full-grown cattle when they are of a small breed, or, in general, undersized.
• noun A sharp-pointed hill; a jutting point.
• noun A hook.
• noun The enlarged tip of the lower jaw of a spent salmon. See kipper, n.
• noun A house of ill fame.
• noun A lodging-house; a bed in a lodging-house; hence, a bed in general.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Scot. A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
• noun (Gymnastics) A method or feat of raising the body when hanging or swinging by the arms, as for the purpose of mounting upon the horizontal bar. The legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
• noun The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin.
• noun See Kipskin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
• noun A bundle or set of such hides.
• noun obsolete A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
• noun The leather made from such hide; kip leather.
• noun A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
• noun A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
• noun rare, nonstandard A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
• noun informal, chiefly UK A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
• noun informal, chiefly UK Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
• noun informal, chiefly UK A very untidy house or room.
• noun informal, chiefly UK, dated A brothel.
• verb informal, chiefly UK To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
• noun gymnastics A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
• noun Australia, games, two-up A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
• noun Scots A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
• noun The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
• noun sleep
• noun the basic unit of money in Laos
• verb be asleep