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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
tip .
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Examples
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Her late husband could not stand in the matrimonial contention of Who should? but tipt off the perch in it, neither knowing how to yield, nor knowing how to conquer.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Many a woman, who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the windows.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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“Observe, too,” said Vivaldi, “how their broken summits, tipt with the beams that have set to our lower region, exhibit the portraiture of towers and castles, and embattled ramparts, which seemed designed to guard them against the enemies, that may come by the clouds.”
The Italian 2004
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The stream was the only thing that moved, with its shimmering mesh of fire-tipt ripples fleeing into the darkness of the reeds.
Red Pottage 2004
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From Paris our baggage (though not plombe) was not once examined till we arrived in this city, at the gate of which we were questioned by one of the searchers, who, being tipt with half a crown, allowed us to proceed without further enquiry,
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His foes dark lower'd, and bent their steel-tipt horns,
The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Only a few superior eminences, tipt with streaming silver, the tops of groves and lofty towers that catch the last smiles of day, were still irradiated by the departing beams.
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Whe_ [*] we haue tipt the lowre & fenc't away the duds [12]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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Lastly, _Two Sticks_ made of _Brasile_, _Lignum-Vitæ_, or some other weighty Wood, to make them heavy, and at the broad end tipt with Ivory:
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Their tribute is the spear, the sword, the arrow tipt with death;
Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days Emily Hickey
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