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tip⋅ple

1  [tip-uhl] verb, -pled, -pling, noun
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–verb (used without object)
1. to drink intoxicating liquor, esp. habitually or to some excess.
–verb (used with object)
2. to drink (intoxicating liquor), esp. repeatedly, in small quantities.
–noun
3. intoxicating liquor.
Origin:
1490–1500; back formation from ME tipeler tapster, equiv. to tipel- tap 2 (c. D tepel teat) + -er -er 1 ; cf. tipsy

tip⋅ple

2  [tip-uhl]
–noun
1. a device that tilts or overturns a freight car to dump its contents.
2. a place where loaded cars are emptied by tipping.
3. Mining. a structure where coal is cleaned and loaded in railroad cars or trucks.
Origin:
1875–80, Americanism; n. use of dial. tipple to tumble, freq. of tip 2 ; see -le
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tip·ple 1   (tĭp'əl)   
tr. & intr.v.   tip·pled, tip·pling, tip·ples
To drink (alcoholic liquor) or engage in such drinking, especially habitually or to excess.
n.  Alcoholic liquor.

[Perhaps back-formation from Middle English tipeler, bartender.]
tip'pler n.
tip·ple 2   (tĭp'əl)   
n.  
    1. An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them.
    2. The place where this is done.
  2. A place for screening coal and loading it into trucks or railroad cars.

[From dialectal tipple, to overturn, frequentative of tip2.]
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Tipple

Tip"ple\, n. [Cf. 3d Tip.] An apparatus by which loaded cars are emptied by tipping; also, the place where such tipping is done.

Tipple

Tip"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tippled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tippling.] [From tip a small end, or a word akin to it; cf. Norw. tipla to tipple, to drip, Prov. E. tip, tiff, tift, a draught of liquor, dial. G. zipfeln to eat and drink in small parts. See Tip a point, and cf. Tipsy.] To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.

Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. --Macaulay.

Tipple

Tip"ple\, v. t. 1. To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.

Himself, for saving charges, A peeled, sliced onions eats, and tipples verjuice. --Dryden.

2. To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.

Tipple

Tip"ple\, n. Liquor taken in tippling; drink.

Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico. --S. B. Griffin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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tipple 
1531, "sell alcoholic liquor by retail," of unknown origin, possibly from a Scand. source (e.g. Norw. dial. tipla "to drink slowly or in small quantities"). Meaning "drink (alcoholic beverage) too much" is first attested 1560. Tippler "seller of alcoholic liquors" is from 1396; in the sense of "habitual drinker" it dates from 1580.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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