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▪ I. lipping, vbl. n.1|ˈlɪpɪŋ| [f. lip v. + -ing1.] 1. a. The action of lip v.1 in various senses.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lipping, making notches on the edge of a cutlass or sword. 1887Pall Mall G. 28 Dec. 5/1 Soon the gentle lipping of the tide was replaced by the roar of white-crested waves. b. spec. in Pathology.
1894Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 June 1188/1 The lipping of the articular ends of the bones being characteristic. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 106 The presence of bony thickening and lipping about the joints. 1899E. Blake Study of Hand (ed. 2) 28 Attacks of chondritis with fibrous degeneration, followed by bulging of the cartilage, known as ‘lipping’, due to muscular traction, on the opposing articular surfaces. 2. A strip of wood or the like fixed to the edge of a board, door, table-top, etc.; the act of fixing such a strip.
1963Gloss. Terms Timber (B.S.I.) 62 Lipping, a strip of wood or other material applied to the edge of a flush door, table top, etc. 1966A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 53 Lipping, fixing a strip of solid wood to the edge of a board, usually by means of a tongue and groove. 1971Timber Trades Jrnl. 14 Aug. 58/2 The pre-glued edging can be either conventional plastics or wood lippings. ▪ II. lipping, vbl. n.2|ˈlɪpɪŋ| [f. lip v.2 + -ing1.] (See quot.)
1796C. Marshall Garden. vii. (1813) 100 Lipping is cutting the slope face of the cion so as to leave a rib down in the middle. ▪ III. lipping, ppl. a.|ˈlɪpɪŋ| [f. lip v.1 + -ing2.] That lips, in senses of the vb.
1843E. Jones Sens. & Event 29 She rose against the lipping wind. 1850W. Miller Songs Nursery in Whistle-Binkie (1890) II. 66 Hairst time's like a lipping cup. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xix. 135 The first little rivulet that trickled forth from their lipping fulness would be the signal of their destruction. |