[f. TIP sb.1 or v.3 But perh. a. ON. typptr tipped, from typpa to tip.]
† 1. (Meaning uncertain.)
Quot. c. 1300 may belong to sense 2; but it looks rather like having the tips cut off, ‘clipt.’ Quot. 13[?] is glossed by editor ‘extreme,’ which seems improbable.
c. 1300. [see TIPPET 1 a].
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 77. He telles me þose traytoures arn typped schrewes.
2. Having a tip, pointed; furnished or adorned with a tip, or with something at the tip.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Nun’s Pr. T., 83. Tipped was his tayl, and bothe hise eeris With blak.
c. 1470. Henryson, Mor. Fab., IX. (Wolf & Fox), vi. My tippit twa eiris, and my twa gray Ene.
1483. Cath. Angl., 389/1. Typped, cornutatus.
1888. Berks. Gloss., Tipped an’ naailed. Boots for field wear have the soles thus furnished.
† 3. Tipped staff. a. A staff tipped with metal: = TIPSTAFF 1. Also tipped mace, stick, wand.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Sompn. T., 29. With scrippe and tipped [v.r. typped] staf ytukked hye.
1485. Rutland Papers (Camden), 9. That the Marshall of England be well accompanyed with men having long tipped staves.
1574. Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 365. Nane suld tak upoun hand to execute ony chargeis without his blason, blawing horne and tippet wand.
1598. Marston, Pygmal., III. 148. Some spirit with a tippet Mace.
1617. Minsheu, Voc. Hisp. Lat., Verguéro, a Vergier, one that carrieth a tipped stick before the Justices … or the Deane.
† b. An officer bearing such a staff: = TIPSTAFF 2.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 565. The Erle of Westmerlande, than newely made marshall, rode about the halle wt many typped staues about hym.
c. 1500. God Speed the Plough, 77, in P. Pl. Crede, etc., 71. Then commeth the tipped-staves for the Marshalse, And saye they haue prisoners mo than Inough.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 3 b. To Westminster hall … where by the Lord Marshall and his tipped staues, was made rome.
