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(noun) - (1) A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire. A ram, whose tail is well soaped and greased, is turned out to the multitude. Anyone that can take him by the tail and hold him fast is to have him for his own. --Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796 (2) From tup, a male sheep; a ram. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1919
January 26, 2018