[f. TIP v.3 (or sb.1) + -ING1.]
1. The action of furnishing or fitting with a tip.
1559. Dunmow Churchw. MS., lf. 44. Payed to John Hootte for typpinge of a spade.
1905. Longm. Mag., Feb., 355. There is no tipping of split sticks with sulphur to make matches.
2. concr. A piece fashioned or fitted on to form a tip, esp. of a different material or color.
c. 1325. Gloss. W. de Bibbesw., in Wright, Voc., 150. De la ceynture le pendaunt, gl. the girdilis ende tipping.
1483. Cath. Angl., 389/1. A Typpynge of A boltt.
1647. H. More, Poems, 7. Crudled clouds, with silver tippings dight.
1785. Phil. Trans., LXXV. 399. Reckoning from the extremities of the bell-metal tippings.
3. Hort. A method of grafting, also called tonguing: see quot.
1763. Mills, Pract. Husb., IV. 217. The third method [of whip-grafting], which is an improvement of the last, is properly named tipping or tonguing.
