Dictionary entry

Tip (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tip (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tipped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tipping.] To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver.

With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras.

Tipped with jet,

Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press. Thomson.