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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In fishing, same as tilt, 6.
  • noun In ornithology, same as fiddler, 4. See teetertail, and cut under Tringoides.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under sandpiper.

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  • adjective constructed so as to tip up or out of the way

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  • (noun)

    a piece of ice-fishing tackle

    A device that signals when a fish hits on your line. A flag "tips up" when the fish strikes and gives you the freedom to leave the fishing hole for a moment. (Possibly to drink beer or to warm up in the shanty.)

    February 6, 2008

  • See a classic wooden tip-up here

    February 6, 2008