tippet
/ˈtɪpɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In fly fishing, the part of the leader that attaches to the fly.
noun
A bird's ruffle.
Example Sentences
- "Drygoods shops did not have much that was Christmassy to display except red flannel and rabbit fur baby coats and muffs and tippets."
- "In practice, this "sunshine roof" did not prove so attractive, since a correspondent wrote to the Railway Times on September 4, 1839, recording that a third-class lady passenger "had her tippet set on fire, and, in extinguishing the same, severely burnt her hand."
- "[…] 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 […]"
- "We are inclined to think this warrior wears his camail over the upper part of the surcoat, which would account for the sudden disappearance of the shield strap or guige when it reaches the mail tippet."
- "Taking the place of the mail coif is the “camail” or mail tippet, which is fastened to the edge of the bascinet. His arm defences show circular plates or “palettes,” which guard the inside of the arm at pit and elbow."
- "Hence this leader wears a richly decorated fur hat and a large gold neck chain, as well as a full steel cuirass over a padded mail tippet. The armour has the horizontally ridged breastplate characteristic of Germany […]"