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Tup   Listen
verb
Tup  v. t. & v. i.  
1.
To butt, as a ram does. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
To cover; said of a ram.





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"Tup" Quotes from Famous Books



... dairyman or a housemaid or a curate or anything you like except a looker. Why should I give you eighteen shillun a week as my looker—twenty shillun, as I've made it now—when my best wether could do what you do quite as well and not take a penny for it? You've got no more sense or know than a tup ..." ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... tup her; ask thy husband else. O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell, But that I did proceed upon just grounds To this extremity. ...
— Othello, the Moor of Venice • William Shakespeare
... an old tup-headed ass?" said Oldbuck, briefly apostrophizing Lovel. "But I must not let him go in ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... not help admiring the determined stride with which the stranger who preceded them divided the press, shouldering from him, by the mere weight and impetus of his motion, both drunk and sober passengers. "He'll be a Teviotdale tup tat ane," said the chairman, "tat's for keeping ta crown o' ta causeway tat gate—he'll no gang far or he'll get somebody to bell ta ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott


Words linked to "Tup" :   sheep, horn


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