tippet

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

• noun A covering for the shoulders, as of fur, with long ends that hang in front.
• noun A long stole worn by members of the Anglican clergy.
• noun A long hanging part, as of a sleeve, hood, or cape.
• noun The thinnest end of a tapered fly-fishing leader.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A long and narrow pendent part of the dress, as the hanging part of a sleeve or the liripipium.
• noun Any scarf or similar garment.
• noun A cape or muffler, usually covering the shoulders or coming, at most, half-way to the elbow, but longer in front; especially, such a garment when made of fur; in modern use, any covering for the neck, or the neck and shoulders, with hanging ends, especially a woolen muffler tied about the neck. Fur tippets still form part of the official costume of English judges.
• noun In the Ch. of Eng., a kind of cape worn by literates (non-graduates), of stuff, and instead of the hood, and by graduates, beneficed clergy, and dignitaries, of silk, at times when they do not wear the hood.
• noun A hood of chain-mail: used sometimes for camail.
• noun A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing-line.
• noun A bundle of straw bound together at one end, used in thatching.
• noun In ornithology, a formation of long or downy feathers about a bird's head or neck; a ruff or ruffle.
• noun In entomology, one of the patagia, or pieces attached to the sides of the pronotum, of a moth: so called because they are generally covered with soft, plumy scales. thus resembling tippets. Also shoulder-tippet.

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

• noun A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, -- usually made of fur, cloth, or other warm material.
• noun Scot. A length of twisted hair or gut in a fish line.
• noun Scot. A handful of straw bound together at one end, and used for thatching.
• noun (Zoöl.) the great crested grebe, or one of several similar species.
• noun (Zoöl.) the ruffed grouse.
• noun [Obs.] to change.

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

• noun a shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front
• noun a stole worn by Anglican ministers
• noun obsolete A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
• noun obsolete A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.

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

• noun a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten