lipping

A tongue of this type acts as an extra tenon and prevents the joint from "lipping" (becoming uneven) on the face side.

Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham

When a portion of the "lipping" is broken off, it may give rise to a loose body.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

It came in a specially made box of American walnut with ebony lipping and purple velvet lining - designed by Viscount Linley, the queen's nephew.

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A gerenuk on tiptoes, entwined in a thorn tree, lipping away the tender leaves.

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"I've been lipping it out, burning the edges, and just haven't got it right yet."

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Me lipping off and saying, You can't make me go inside!' wouldn't have helped anything.

Book 'Em, Dan'l Steve Perry 2010

It was a hardscrabble hillside farm, a few cattle lipping silage behind a single strand of high-tensile wire.

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The jaws of the clamshell rise over the ruins of the roofline, and it picks at the ornate brick chimney crown as delicately as a giraffe lipping at leaves.

The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010

However, if you notice in the picture the angler is lipping the fish, so of course I too am thinking striper, but he is looking at it with utter disdain, so I am thinking they are targeting blues but can't keep the filthy stripers off the line.

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Rose got shaky with the short game, lipping out a 3½-foot par putt on the 16th, hitting a simple chip too hard from behind the 17th green and leaving himself a 4-foot putt that caught the left edge.

Appleby one up on Woods after rough day at Masters 2007