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Definition of Tippers
1. tipper [n] - See also: tipper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tippers
Literary usage of Tippers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darwinism and Other Essays by John Fiske (1879)
"HAMMOND AND THE TABLE-tippers.1 ON this most dismal of subjects Dr. Hammond has
given us a book that is both sensible and entertaining. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1876)
"The tippers are normally in a more or less upright position, and the mercury in
each remains at the bottom away from the wires. On reversing the tipper the ..."
3. Wages and Earnings of the Working Classes: With Some Facts Illustrative of by Leone Levi (1867)
"In Bristol the wages are, body makers, 25/ ; silk finishers, 25/ ; tippers off,
30/ ; crown sewers, 7/ ; trimmers, 7/. In Glasgow, body makers, ..."
4. The Mining Engineer (1897)
"The hutches from the two pits on leaving the cages run on to the hutch
weighing-machines, W, and after being weighed proceed to the hutch-tippers, T. Before ..."
5. The Design, Construction and Maintenance of Sewage Disposal Works: Being a by Hugh Percival Raikes (1908)
"The tipper is divided into two sections, each of which holds enough sewage to
fill the troughs on one side, and as the tippers work on a horizontal pivot ..."
6. The Design, Construction and Maintenance of Sewage Disposal Works: Being a by Hugh Percival Raikes (1908)
"Although this apparatus is only an ingenious combination of troughs and tippers
which had both been used independently before, it embodies a number of ..."
7. The Design, Construction and Maintenance of Sewage Disposal Works: Being a by Hugh Percival Raikes (1908)
"The tipper is divided into two sections, each of which holds enough sewage to
fill the troughs on one side, and as the tippers work on a horizontal pivot ..."
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