Obs. rare–1. In 6 titup(p. [f. vbl. phr. tit up, pull up, TIT v.1] The trigger of a cross-bow.
1536. Bellenden, Boece’s Cron. Scot., XI. x. (1541), 163/2. Als sone as ony man maid him to throw this apill out of the hand of the image, the wrying of the samyn drew all the tituppis of the crosbowis [ed. 1585 quarrels of the crossebowes] vp at anis, & schot at hym yt threw ye apill. [orig. quam primum quispiam pomum manu tractando loco etiam paulum moueret: expeditæ ballistarum chorde, catapultas in tractantem ingenti vi emitterent.]
