Tipper

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tipper \Tip"per\, n.
     A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a
     particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it,
     one Thomas Tipper. [Eng.]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tipper
       n 1: a person who leaves a tip; "a generous tipper"
       2: truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the
          front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so
          that the load is discharged by gravity [syn: {dump truck},
           {dumper}, {tipper truck}, {tipper lorry}, {tip truck}]