tup

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A male sheep, a ram.

   • ... to tie up rams, which could not be supposed to much used to handling ... having often heard for a proverb, as mad as a tup in an halter
2. 2

   The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer.

   • Those familiar with drop forging are accustomed to sizing drop hammers as 1 ton or 5 ton or whatever. This measure of the size is simply the weight of the tup. The total weight of the helve of No 2 is about 6.4 tons.
3. 3

   To mate

   To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe.

   • Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.
   • The Langley Chase Flock - explanation of tupping Tupping is the term used for when the rams cover the ewes. For our flock, this takes place in November when the ewes naturally come into season.
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   1. 4

      To have sex with, to bonk, etc.

      • I love her well enough to tup her, I suppose. A dangerous bit of business, that. She is as fertile as a bloody alluvial plain.
      • I was the one who convinced her you would not tup her, and that if you did you would never lie with her against her will.
   2. 5

      To butt.

   3. 6

      Two pence.

   4. 7

      Abbreviation of transfer under pressure.

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