[f. TIP sb.1 + -LET.] A small or minute tip or point.
1890. C. L. Morgan, Anim. Life & Intell. (1891), 106. The feathers composing their tiplets … are of so beautiful a colour that they beggar description.
1899. Blackw. Mag., April, 671/2. Pale heads of meadow-rue dusted with ruddy tiplets.
