tippet

English

Anglican priest wearing a black tippet.

Etymology

From Old English tæppet, from Latin tapete (“cloth”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪpɪt

Noun

tippet (plural tippets)

1. A shoulder covering, typically the fur of a fox, with long ends that dangle in front.
   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Christmas,”^[1]

     Drygoods shops did not have much that was Christmassy to display except red flannel and rabbit fur baby coats and muffs and tippets.

2. A stole worn by Anglican ministers or other clergymen.
   • 1581, Meredith Hanmer, The Iesuites Banner, London, Chapter 3,^[2]

     […] so this Iesuitical sect is descrired by their long [i]ackets, their course stockinges, their thicke cobled shoes, their long clokes with claspe vnder the chin, their sorbonical tippet […]

3. (Scotland, obsolete) A length of twisted hair or gut in a fishing line.
4. (Scotland, obsolete) A handful of straw bound together at one end, used for thatching.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

5. (fishing) In fly fishing, the part of the leader that attaches to the fly.
6. A bird's ruffle.
7. One of the patagia, or pieces at the side of the pronotum of a moth.

Derived terms

• tippet grebe (great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus)
• tippet grouse (ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus)
• turn tippet

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tippet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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German

Verb

tippet

1. (deprecated template usage) Second-person plural subjunctive I of tippen.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tippa

Verb

tippet

1. inflection of tippe:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle