4. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
5. Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
TIP
Tip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tipping.]
Defn: To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to
tip anything with gold or silver.
With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras.
Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
Thomson.
TIP Tip, v. t. Etym: [Cf. LG. tippen to tap, Sw. tippa, and E. tap to strike gently.]
1. To strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.
2. To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
3. To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip
a cask; to tip a cart. To tip off, to pour out, as liquor.
— To tip over, to overturn.
— To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion
by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope.
— To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.
TIP
Tip, v. i.
Defn: To fall on, or incline to, one side. Bunyan. To tip off, to fall off by tipping.