Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cam or projection in a mechanism designed to strike another part at regular intervals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hard ball used in the game of trip.
- noun In machinery, any projecting part designed to strike some other part at regular intervals, as a cam, lifter, toe, wiper, or foot.
- noun A quarter of a pound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mach.) A cam, wiper, or projecting piece which strikes another piece repeatedly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun engineering A
cam ,wiper , orprojecting piece whichstrikes another piece repeatedly.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English tripet, piece of wood used in a game, from trippen, to trip; see trip.]
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Examples
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Ay, ye're reet tul a trippet, thar; for Beelzebub dar'n't show his snout inside the church, not the length o 'the black o' my nail. "
Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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