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▪ I. † tipe, type, n.1 Obs.
[Origin and history obscure. Sense 2 seems to be synonymous with tip n.1 1 b.]
1. A small cupola or dome.
1532in Low Hampton Court (1885) I. xxvii. 347 Takyng downe of the iiij types upon the great White Tower, and casting and chasyng of the same iiij types. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 157 A porche with a tipe and crokettes gilt. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 932/1 To Leaden hall, where was a goodlie pageant with a type and a heauenlie roofe, and vnder the type was a roote of gold set on a little mounteine. 1607–8in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 493 Half ynch bord to cover y⊇ type of y⊇ Lover [= Louver]. 1613Chapman Inns of Court Plays 1873 III. 95 Aboue all, was a Coupolo, or Type. 1708New View Lond. I. 98/2 A Marble Font, whose Tipe or Cover has the Enrichments of Cupids, Fruit Leaves.
2. fig. The summit, acme, or highest point (of honour, dignity, or other state). Cf. tip n.1 1 b.
a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 199 How muche more ought a noble man to fume..when the high tipe of his honor is touched. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 917 Some of them..attained to the tipe of royal dignity. 1591Troub. Raigne K. John ii. (1611) 106 As if your highnes were now in the highest tipe of dignitie. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 506 You shall through your rashnesse..tumble downe headlong from the type of so great majestie.
▪ II. tipe, n.2 dial.|taɪp|
[f. tipe, variant and earlier form of tip v.2]
A kind of trap for catching mice, rabbits, etc., in which a board balanced on a pivot is tipped or tilted by the weight of the animal passing over it. Also tipe-trap. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.)
1788W. Marshall E. Yorks. II. Gloss., Tipe, a trap or devise for catching rabbits. Also for taking mice, rats, or other vermin. The general principle is that of a balance [etc.]. 1828Craven Gloss., Tipe, a mouse trap, consisting of a board suspended over a vessel of water, and nicely balanced on a pivot. 1846J. Baxter's Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 335 The usual methods adopted in catching rabbits are by fold-nets, spring-nets, and tipes, a species of trap, being a pit or cistern covered with a floor, with a small trap⁓door, nicely balanced near the centre, into which the rabbits pass by a narrow passage.
▪ III. tipe, v.|taɪp|
Obs. or dial. form of tip v.2 |