[f. TIP v.2, esp. senses 1 b, 2, 3.]
I. Skittles. (Cf. TIP v.2 1 b.)
† 1. The knocking over of a pin by another which falls or rolls against it, as distinct from knocking one down by the immediate impact of the bowl. In some forms of the game applied also to other modes of knocking down, distinct from bowling.
1673. [R. Leigh], Transp. Reh., 54. Down they [nine-pins] all come at a tip and throw.
1694. S. Johnson, Notes Past. Let. Bp. Burnet, I. 39. That is a cleaverer Tip … than taking out the Middle Pin, and throwing down none of the rest.
1773. A. Jones (title), The Art of Playing at Skittles … Shewing Both the Old and the New Methods of forming General Goes and Tips. Ibid., 20. The greatest go that can be had is 40, or 20 at the bowl and the same at the tip; the least go must be 1.
(b) 1801. Strutt, Sports & Past., III. vii. § 10. Dutch-pins. The player first stands at a certain distance from the frame, and throws his bowl at the pins…; afterwards he approaches the frame and makes his tipp by casting the bowl among the pins.
1819. Pantologia, X. s.v. Skittles, The bowler must stand to take his tip with one foot upon the spot where the bowl stopped.
II. The act of tilting and derived uses.
2. An act of tipping up or tilting, or the fact of being tilted; inclination. (Cf. TIP v.2 2.)
1849. Cupples, Green Hand, viii. (1856), 72. Back again it [a shark] came … towards us, till it sank with a light tip, and a circle or two on the blue water.
1862. Grove, Corr. Phys. Forces (ed. 4), 138. The ‘tip,’ or the raising of the weight, is performed by the electrical repulsion and attraction.
Mod. Give the cask a slight tip.
3. A place or erection where wagons or trucks of coal, etc., are tipped and their contents discharged into the hold of a vessel, or into a cart, etc. b. A wagon or truck from which coal, etc., is tipped; short for tip-cart, tip-car (Cent. Dict.). (Cf. TIP v.2 3.)
1862. Castlemaine (Australia) Daily News, 2 July. A young man … met with an accident whilst working the ‘tip’ at the railway embankment, behind Bruce’s Foundry.
1885. Sir J. Pearson, in Law Times Rep., LII. 546/1. There is a spring … close to the bottom of the tip as it at present stands.
1889. Daily News, 19 July, 2/8. There were seventeen fixed tips in the dock … for coal loading, and foundations had been laid for two more tips.
1891. Labour Commission, Gloss., Tip, a lofty erection of wood and iron placed upon the quay wall at the side of the deck, and under which ships are placed to receive their cargoes of coal…. Tips1, screens or other arrangements upon which the mineral is upset from the tub or tram and conveyed into a waggon, cart, or boat. Tips2, ‘staiths’ or other erections with shoots into which the coal is emptied from waggons and then shot or tipped into the hold of the vessel.
1904. A. Griffiths, 50 Years Public Service, xii. 169. Long rows of trucks … were hauled up by steam power and run on to the ‘tips.’
4. a. The mound or mass of rubbish, etc., that is tipped. b. A place or receptacle into which earth or rubbish is tipped or shot; a dumping-ground.
1863. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Tip,… rubbish thrown from a quarry.
1890. Lancet, 14 June, 1311/2. Near to the affected dwellings is the town ‘tip’ for refuse.
1901. Daily News, 5 Jan., 6/5. From the temporary termination of the Goldsworth tip to the western side of Brookwood station the work is as yet one of preparation only.
1910. Times, 18 Jan., 3/1. The defendant corporation had the use of the tip, and their carts were … crossing the field … to the tip.
5. Comb.: see TIP- in comb.
