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▪ I. lipper, n.1 Naut. and dial.|ˈlɪpə(r)| Also 6 Sc. lippir. [Belongs to lipper v.1] A rippling, slight ruffling of the surface of the sea. Often collect. Also wind-lipper. See also quot. 1867.
1513Douglas æneis vii. ix. 119 Lyk as the see changis fyrst his hew In quhyt lippiris by the wyndis blast. 1789Trans. Soc. Arts II. 221 A deal of sea and wind lipper. 1823J. F. Cooper Pioneers xv. (1869) 67/1 ‘As to the seas, they russ more in lippers in the Bay of Biscay’. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., There's no great sets o' wind, but a great deal of lipper on. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lipper, a sea which washes over the weather chess-tree, perhaps leaper. Also, the spray from small waves breaking against a ship's bows. 1882Good Cheer 33 A light breeze was blowing, making what sailors call a lipper on the surface of the water. 1890Pall Mall G. 7 July 6/2 The approaching torpedo, so clearly identifiable by..the lipper of its ‘wake’. ▪ II. lipper, n.2 Glass-making.|ˈlɪpə(r)| [f. lip v.1 + -er1.] An implement used in forming the lip on a glass vessel.
1869J. Leicester in Eng. Mech. 3 Dec. 282/2 The work⁓man then takes his lipper, which is merely a round piece of glass, the shape of a small rolling-pin. ▪ III. lipper, n.3 Whaling.|ˈlɪpə(r)| (See quot.)
1887G. B. Goode etc. Fisheries U.S. II. 287 In lippering up decks a man takes an oil scoop in one hand and the lipper in the other, with which he brushes the refuse fluid into the receptacles and transfers it to the tubs. [Note] A lipper is a piece of thin blubber of an oblong shape, with incisions in one end for the men to grasp... Sometimes a piece of leather may be used. Different vessels employ different utensils of this kind. A large metal ladle used for scooping up the oil from the deck is also called the lipper. ▪ IV. lipper, v.1|ˈlɪpə(r)| [? frequentative formation related to lap v.1] intr. Of water: To ripple.
1513Douglas æneis viii. xi. 73 The lypperand wallis quhyt War pulderit full of fomy froyth mylk quhit. Ibid. x. vi. 11 Nor ȝit na land brist lyppering on the wallis. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 107 A little burn, with scarce audible noise, runs lippering in the bottom. ▪ V. lipper, v.2 dial.|ˈlɪpə(r)| [? freq. of lip v.1 (cf. lip v.1 3).] intr. Of a boat: To have its lip or gunwale level with (the water).
1822Hibbert Descr. Shetld. Isles 511 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. 1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. xv. (1855) 136 The boat..being..sunk so far as just to lipper with the water. ▪ VI. lipper, v.3 Whaling.|ˈlɪpə(r)| [f. lipper n.3] trans. To wipe (the deck) with a lipper. Chiefly to lipper up, off.
1887G. B. Goode, etc. Fisheries U.S. II. 287 The decks..are..‘lippered up’ regularly while boiling, for the sake of cleanliness and economy as well. Ibid., Lippering up [see lipper n.3]. 1890Century Dict. s.v., To lipper off the deck. ▪ VII. lipper var. leper n.1 Obs.; obs. f. leper n.2 |