Also 5–6 Sc. toppit, 7–9 topt. [f. TOP sb.1 and v.1 + -ED.]
1. Having or furnished with a top or tops (see the senses of TOP sb.1). Also in parasynthetic comb., as large-topped, sharp-topped, etc.
c. 1450. Holland, Howlat, 136. Heronnis contemplatif … With toppit hudis on hed.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IV. x. 86. The seis large, All wmbeset with toppit schip and barge.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 35. The other is rather Spearelike and sharpe topped.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., II. 44. Taking their directions from the topped hills of the maine continent.
1675. Han. Woolley, Gentlew. Comp., 58. The large-topt stockings with supporters to bear them up.
1681. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen. (1693), 1240. To make topped, or sharp at the top.
1826. Hogg, C. Dinmont, in Lit. Souvenir, 257. He had huge topped boots, all of one colour.
1852. R. S. Surtees, Sponge’s Sp. Tour, ix. 38. A pair of … brown topped boots.
2. Having the top removed; of a tree: polled, pollarded; of hemp: see TOP v.1 3, quot. 1794.
1712. J. James, trans. Le Blond’s Gardening, 169. Some topped Elms … in five or six Years time have form’d a handsome … Head.
1794. Rigging & Seamanship, I. 62. Ropes made from topt hemp will not stretch so much.
1844. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 8. The topped and tailed turnips.
1890. W. A. Wallace, Only a Sister, 322. Under that topped willow.
