dial. [? freq. of LIP v.1 (cf. LIP v.1 3).] intr. Of a boat: To have its lip or gunwale level with (the water).
1822. Hibbert, Descr. Shetld. Isles, 51. Nor can these lighten the boat so much as that she will not appear, according to the phrase of the fishermen, just lippering with the water.
1844. W. H. Maxwell, Sports & Adv. Scotl., xv. (1855), 136. The boat … being … sunk so far as just to lipper with the water.
