1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. ix. 119 Lyk as the see changis fyrst his hew In quhyt lippiris by the wyndis blast.

1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 2 221 A deal of sea and wind lipper.

1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. xv. 224 As to the seas, they runs more in lippers in the Bay of Biscay.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 105 There's no great sets o' wind, but a great deal of lipper on.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 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.

1882 Good Cheer 33 A light breeze was blowing, making what sailors call a lipper on the surface of the water.

1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 July 6/2 The approaching torpedo, so clearly identifiable by..the lipper of its ‘wake’.

1869 J. 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.

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods 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.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. xi. 73 The lypperand wallis quhyt War pulderit full of fomy froyth mylk quhit.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. vi. 11 Nor ȝit na land brist lyppering on the wallis.

1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 107 A little burn, with scarce audible noise, runs lippering in the bottom.

1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 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.

1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xv. 263 The boat..being..sunk so far as just to lipper with the water.

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 287 The decks..are..‘lippered up’ regularly while boiling, for the sake of cleanliness and economy as well.

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 287 Lippering up [see lipper n.³].

1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) To lipper off the deck.

1904 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 5 Mar. 23552 Both the deck lipperings and blubber-room lipperings are usually deposited in barrels or tubs.