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tup
[ tuhp ]
noun
- Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- the head of a falling hammerlike mechanism, as of a steam hammer or pile driver.
verb (used with object)
- Chiefly British. (of a ram) to copulate with (a ewe).
verb (used without object)
- Chiefly British. (of a ewe) to copulate.
tup
/ tʌp /
noun
- an uncastrated male sheep; ram
- the head of a pile-driver or steam hammer
verb
- to cause (a ram) to mate with a ewe, or (of a ram) to mate with (a ewe)
- dialect.to butt (someone), as in a fight
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Example Sentences
Mattie has been twice at the door wi' the dinner, and weel for you it was a tup's head, for that canna suffer by delay.
Aw glendurt like a stickt tup, for fear ov a dust mysel', an crope fur into th' chimbley.
The shearling tup is then a 2-shear tup, and the dinmont is a wether, but more correctly a 2-shear wether.
Anent sheep jumping hedges, I may venture here to tell a tale of a certain old rogue who went by the name of Tup-Harry.
As if I mattered a tup's head, the silly gomeril, bless him!
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