Tipple vs Tiple - What's the difference?
tipple | tiple |
An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.
(rail transport) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.
(slang) Any alcoholic drink.
To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.
To drink too much alcohol.
To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.
* Macaulay
To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.
(musical instrument) a small, plucked stringed-instrument of the guitar family, used in the traditional musics of Spain and various Latin American nations
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As nouns the difference between tipple and tiple
is that tipple is an area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal while tiple is a small, plucked stringed-instrument of the guitar family, used in the traditional musics of Spain and various Latin American nations.As a verb tipple
is to sell alcoholic liquor by retail.tipple
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* (alcoholic drink) seeVerb
(tippl)- Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.