Also 5 tippe. [app. f. TIP v.1] An act of tipping, a light but distinct impact, blow, stroke, or hit; a noiseless tap; a significant touch. † Tip for tap = tit for tat: see TIT sb.2, and cf. tap for tap in quot. 1597 s.v. TAP sb.2 1. Foul tip (Baseball), a foul hit in which the ball is only grazed: cf. FOUL a. 14.
a. 1466. Chas. Dk. Orleans, Poems (Roxb.), 7. Strokis grete, not tippe nor tapp.
1575. Gascoigne, Adv. F. I., Wks. II. 249. Much greater is the wrong that rewardeth euill for good, than that which requiteth [pr. requireth] tip for tap.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 154. Not to bragge of any thing ouer arrogantly, not to answere tip for tap [L. non responsare].
1608. Willet, Hexapla Exod., 488. He that abused his parents…, that gaue them but a tip, or a reuiling word.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Tip,… a smart but light blow.
1844. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 695. A smart tip of the whip will take the courage out of him.
1865. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 29 Sept., 2/6. Davis home on Abercrombie’s hit, Parker out on a foul fly tip—8 runs in.
1889. Century Mag., Oct., 837/1. Wont to wear a small piece of rubber in the mouth as a protection to the teeth from foul tips.
