† 1. in Skittles: see TIP v.2 1 b. Obs.
1819. Pantologia, X. s.v. Skittles, If the tipper give a sweep round with his hand and bring down any pins by means of his hand or coat-sleeve, that is deemed unfair, and he must lose one pin.
2. a. A workman employed in tipping or emptying out coal-wagons, trucks, etc.
1872. Daily News, 8 Oct., 3. Mr. Pickard contended that engine-men, bankers, tippers, blacksmiths, &c., ought not to be admitted, as their interests were no more identical with those of the miner than the shopkeepers who are the friends of the pitman. Ibid. (1890), 29. July, 6/5. The s.s. Tasso … was placed under the tips yesterday afternoon; but when it was discovered that the seamen … were non-Union men, the tippers and trimmers refused to load, and left work in protest.
1891. Labour Commission, Gloss., Tippers (1) Those who empty coal waggons or trucks by tipping up one end. (2) The men at the docks who tip the coal into the hold of a vessel by means of the hydraulic lifts … called ‘tips.’
b. A device or apparatus for tipping or tilting; spec. for tipping and emptying coal-wagons.
1870. Atkinson, trans. Ganot’s Physics, ii. § 69 a (ed. 4), 54. The top of this mass [of iron] is provided with a tipper which catches against the end of a bent lever.
1884. Health Exhib. Catal., 59/2. Shrewsbury Tipper Flushing Water Closet.
1901. Scotsman, 15 Oct., 4/8. The coals … in hutches of 10 cwts. … are … pushed on to the revolving power-driven tippers, which land the coal on to three distributing jiggers.
c. A wagon or truck constructed to tip earth, etc., distinguished according to its action as an end-tipper or a side-tipper: cf. TIP- in comb.
3. [TIP v.3] A person employed in fitting on tips to umbrellas or other articles.
Mod. Newsp. Advt. Umbrella tippers wanted, indoors.
4. [TIP v.4] One who gives a ‘tip’ or gratuity.
1877. Crauf. Tait, Lett., 1 Aug., in W. Benham, Cath. & C. Tait. This is better both for the class of tippers and tipped than our system.
1894. Daily News, 18 Dec., 5/3. There are no tippers so hardened and profuse as Anglo-Indian tippers.
1900. N. & Q., 9th Ser. V. 526/2. Thackeray, the unfailing tipper of schoolboys, slipped a sovereign into my hand.
5. [TIP v.5] One who gives ‘tips’ or private information; a tipster.
1892. in Cent. Dict.
