Definitions for tippet

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tippet tip·pet

Spelling: [tip-it]

IPA: /ˈtɪp ɪt/

Tippet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in tippet (eipptt).

Definitions for tippet

noun

1. a scarf, usually of fur or wool, for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, and usually having ends hanging down in front. Compare stole2 (def 2).
2. Ecclesiastical. a band of silk or the like worn around the neck with the ends pendent in front. Compare stole2 (def 1).
3. a long, narrow, pendent part of a hood, sleeve, etc.
4. Angling. a short length of gut, nylon, or the like, for tying an artificial fly to the leader. a branch of the shaft of a bird feather, serving as the tail of an artificial fly.

Origin of tippet

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at tip¹, -et

Examples for tippet

Laura has lost her tippet; I lend her mine, and she kind o' blushes.

"I shall wear my tippet when we go to the depot, and have a new hood," said Grace.

Perhaps the parasol was hers too, the coral beads, the muff and tippet!

She has on a small flat hat, and a tippet over her shoulders.

But do thou first cover me in bed, and give me a tippet; I 'm cold.

Laura has lost her tippet; I lend her mine, an' she kind o' blushes.

One of her long sleeves she had untied from her tippet, and taken it off; the other remained.

The Cargan seems to have been a collar or tippet of chain-mail.

So saying, she stripped off the white frock, hat, and tippet.

She had cast off her hood and tippet, and lay on her bed, her face turned to the wall.