[f. TIP v.2 + -ING1.] The action of TIP v.2 in various senses: spec.
1. Tilting, inclination, upsetting.
1863. Holland, Lett. Joneses, vii. 105. Scraping of fiddles, and the tipping of tables.
1866. Lond. Rev., 25 Aug., 206/3. Whether this tipping of the mental balance was not a physical rather than a mental mishap.
1901. Essex Weekly News, 8 March, 3/3. Owing to the frequent tipping of the tumbril.
2. Skittles.
1801. [see TIP v.2 1 b (b)].
1819. Pantologia, X. s.v. Skittles, If in tipping the bowl is caught or stopped by one of the opposite party, who, in so doing, stops or impedes a live pin, the party who stops loses one from his own score.
3. The tilting up of a truck so as to discharge its contents; the emptying out of the contents of a truck, etc., by tilting; dumping.
1838. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 354/1. A contrivance to facilitate the tipping of the earth-waggons. Ibid. (1842), V. 85/2. The price he paid for tipping was 13s. 6d. per hundred wagons.
1878. F. S. Williams, Midl. Railw., 51. The Oakenshard cutting and embankment … required the quarrying and tipping of some 600,000 yards of rock.
b. pl. (concr.) Material tipped or emptied out from a quarry, etc. c. A railway embankment. local.
1884. Chesh. Gloss., Tipping, a railway embankment formed by tipping wagons full of soil or stone.
1888. Pall Mall G., 3 Aug., 5/1. The quarries at Llanberis, whose tippings are gradually filling up the once beautiful Llyn Peris.
d. attrib., as tipping platform, wagon: cf. TIP-.
1885. Du Cane, Punishm. & Prevent. Crime, vi. 180. Removing the earth from the area of the basin by means of waggons and incline planes, barrow roads, barrow lifts, and tipping waggons.
1891. Daily News, 6 Feb., 6/3. 200 clerks have intimated their readiness to do the tipping work till other arrangements have been made.
1901. Feilden’s Mag., IV. 436/2. A ‘tipping platform’ for the storage of the refuse and for the feeding of the furnaces.
