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tup

Ram \Ram\ (r[a^]m), n. [AS. ramm, ram; akin to OHG. & D. ram, Prov. G. ramm, and perh. to Icel. ramr strong.]

  1. The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

  2. (Astron.)

    1. Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.

    2. The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.

  3. An engine of war used for butting or battering. Specifically:

    1. In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.

    2. A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.

  4. A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.

  5. The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.

  6. The plunger of a hydraulic press. Ram's horn.

    1. (Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch. [Written also ramshorn.]
      --Farrow.

    2. (Paleon.) An ammonite.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tup

"male sheep," c.1300, Scottish and Northern English; of unknown origin. As a verb, "to copulate," 1540s. Related: Tupped; tupping.

Wiktionary
tup

Etymology 1 n. 1 A male sheep, a ram. 2 The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer. vb. 1 To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe. 2 (context slang English) To have sex with, to bonk, etc. 3 (context regional English slang English) To butt: said of a ram. Etymology 2

n. Two pence.

WordNet
tup

  1. n. uncastrated adult male sheep; "a British term is `tup'" [syn: ram]

  2. [also: tupping, tupped]

Wikipedia
Tup

Tup or TUP may refer to:

  • Tup, an uncastrated male sheep
    • Tupping, copulation in sheep, also the sheep mating season
  • Technological University of the Philippines
  • Telephone User Part, a telephone system protocol used in some parts of the world
  • Tupelo Regional Airport, Tupelo, Mississippi, US, IATA and FAA LID codes
Tup (album)

Tup is the second studio album by the alternative metal band Loppybogymi.

Usage examples of "tup".

It led to the clamorous horror of the cell-deck, to the puzzled low-grade servitors, to the tanks where the expellees writhed, and to the splayed, silent body of the naive crewman she had known as Tup.

Koolee, and Monnie, and Nip and Tup all ran to meet the hunters, and you never saw two prouder boys than Koko and Menie when they showed the reindeer to their mothers.

Her whore of a mother could have caught her from tupping her russet-haired lutenist, Mark Smeaton.

A psychometrist could detect Wagner and Keats, and Schopenhauer, and Rossetti and Swinburne, and all the rest of them in that wall-paper, just as surely as he could have detected Tupper and Eliza Cook in the wall-papers of 1851.

We mean stand around outside with the other tourists staring incomprehendingly at the menu, which should look like this: CARTE DE MENU Les Petites Eyeballes de Mackerelle en Huile de Voiture Le Debenture en Camisole au Bibliothieque Le Spamme avec un Side de Fries Le Poisson du Votre Fr6re Raoul Le Roni du Zoo en La Ware de la Tupper Prix Pour Le Wholle Ball de Waxe: 156,000,000,000,000,000 Franks.

Tupper swept him up in an embrace from behind, causing Weeble to grunt in surprise.

I assumed Tup Ladletender would rope the slave beads on my neck, fastening them behind my neck.

Then, as I stood helplessly braceleted, Tup Ladletender roped the cheap beads about my neck.

Wrigley was replaced within two years of the Winnipeg meeting by a Smith servitor named Clarence Campbell Chipman, a former secretary to Sir Charles Tupper.

We mean stand around outside with the other tourists staring incomprehendingly at the menu, which should look like this: CARTE DE MENU Les Petites Eyeballes de Mackerelle en Huile de Voiture Le Debenture en Camisole au Bibliothieque Le Spamme avec un Side de Fries Le Poisson du Votre Fr6re Raoul Le Roni du Zoo en La Ware de la Tupper Prix Pour Le Wholle Ball de Waxe: 156,000,000,000,000,000 Franks.

After exclamations about the luxury and size of the room and after Tupper had been rushed narrowly to the bathroom, everyone was allocated a space in the bed.

Luck and a repeat of the wards while John tupped with the lovely Sybella tonight would make him forget all that had been said against Blakely today.

Sean Courtney, faced with the sight of somebody actually tupping his ewe lamb, was fully capable of destroying both them and himself.

But he was one of your wrath-of-God tyrants who won't be gainsaid, and quoted Queen's Regulations, and bullied me about Duty and Honour - and I was young then, and fagged out with tupping Ranavalona, and easily cowed.

My outward type had knotted a lot of black skulls, tupped a plenitude of black ewes, burned crosses and people in season.