1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. xx. xxi. 72 The seed of Mallows..sodden in milk and taken after a sippling sort.
1681 W. Robertson (1693) 1159 To spend all the day in sipling.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot i. 33 They all drink it sipping..; so that being in a Coffee-hane..one hears a pretty pleasant kind of sippling musick.