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tipper1|ˈtɪpə(r)|
[f. tip v.2, v.3, v.4, v.5 + -er1.]
One who or that which tips, in various senses of the verbs. spec.
†1. in Skittles: see tip v.2 1 b. Obs.
1819Pantologia X. s.v. Skittles, If the tipper give a sweep round with his hand and bring down any pins by means of his hand or coat-sleeve, that is deemed unfair, and he must lose one pin.
2. a. A workman employed in tipping or emptying out coal-wagons, trucks, etc.
1861MacMillan's Mag. Dec. 143/2, I got some work in Sussex, as a ‘tipper’. 1872Daily News 8 Oct. 3 Mr. Pickard contended that engine-men, bankers, tippers, blacksmiths, &c., ought not to be admitted, as their interests were no more identical with those of the miner than the shopkeepers who are the friends of the pitman. 1890Ibid. 29 July 6/5 The s.s. Tasso..was placed under the tips yesterday afternoon; but when it was discovered that the seamen..were non-Union men, the tippers and trimmers refused to load, and left work in protest. 1891Labour Commission Gloss., Tippers (1) Those who empty coal waggons or trucks by tipping up one end. (2) The men at the docks who tip the coal into the hold of a vessel by means of the hydraulic lifts..called ‘tips’.
b. A device or apparatus for tipping or tilting; spec. for tipping and emptying coal-wagons.
1870Atkinson tr. Ganot's Physics ii. §69 a (ed. 4) 54 The top of this mass [of iron] is provided with a tipper which catches against the end of a bent lever. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 59/2 Shrewsbury Tipper Flushing Water Closet. 1901Scotsman 15 Oct. 4/8 The coals..in hutches of 10 cwts...are..pushed on to the revolving power-driven tippers, which land the coal on to three distributing jiggers.
c. A wagon or truck constructed to tip earth, etc., sometimes distinguished according to its action as an end-tipper or a side-tipper: cf. tip- in comb. Freq. attrib.
1920Glasgow Herald 18 Apr. 10 The farmer can get on with his work, and the waggon which, in preference to being a ‘tipper’ would have a moving lattice floor and a removable drum..would spread the manure direct on the fields. 1950Engineering 3 Feb. 140/1 Specialised vehicles, such as tippers. 1955Times 14 June 4/5 There had been a shortage of tipper vehicles for emergency purposes. 1977Jersey Even. Post 26 July 25/7 (Advt.), Tipper lorry (high sided), immediately available for contract work, etc. 1979West Lancs. Even. Gaz. 10 Sept. 12 (Advt.), Tipper driver required. 1983Truckin' Life Aug. 70/3 I've watched some poor little tipper struggling up a 5 per cent grade in second gear with two or three tonnes of topsoil.
3. [tip v.3] A person employed in fitting on tips to umbrellas or other articles.
Mod. Newsp. Advt., Umbrella tippers wanted, indoors.
4. [tip v.4] One who gives a ‘tip’ or gratuity.
1877Crauf. Tait Let. 1 Aug., in W. Benham Cath. & C. Tait, This is better both for the class of tippers and tipped than our system. 1894Daily News 18 Dec. 5/3 There are no tippers so hardened and profuse as Anglo-Indian tippers. 1900N. & Q. 9th Ser. V. 526/2 Thackeray, the unfailing tipper of schoolboys, slipped a sovereign into my hand.
5. [tip v.5] One who gives ‘tips’ or private information; a tipster.
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