Tup vs Wether - What's the difference?
tup | wether |
A male sheep, a ram.
* 1790 [http://books.google.com/books?id=orhMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA222&dq=%22a%20tup%20in%20an%20halter%22#v=onepage&q=%22a%20tup%20in%20an%20halter%22&f=false]
The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer.
* (rfdate) [http://www.topforge.co.uk/Magazines/Hammer2.htm]
* (rfdate) [http://www.key-to-steel.com/Articles/Art168.htm]
* (rfdate) [http://www.steelcorp.com/term.htm]
To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe.
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* (rfdate)
(slang) To have sex with, to bonk, etc.
* 2001 , Simon Hawke, A Mystery of Errors [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0812564545&id=iu5CUMiNTUMC&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=%22tup+her%22&sig=VIxFsnbUvckFmygYjq6Shc8r9bg]
* 2003 , Pierre Delattre, Woman on the Cross [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0966861256&id=oc7an025f9MC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=%22tup+her%22&sig=rbHJq6-MuXoPp0MAdXGJ28SIGdI]
(regional English, slang) To butt: said of a ram.
Two pence.
A castrated buck goat.
A castrated ram.
* {{quote-book
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, author=George Joye
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As nouns the difference between tup and wether
is that tup is a male sheep, a ram while wether is a castrated buck goat.As verbs the difference between tup and wether
is that tup is to mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe while wether is to castrate a male sheep or goat.tup
English
(wikipedia tup)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tupe, origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- ... to tie up rams, which could not be supposed to much used to handling ... having often heard for a proverb, as mad as a tup in an halter
- Those familiar with drop forging are accustomed to sizing drop hammers as 1 ton or 5 ton or whatever. This measure of the size is simply the weight of the tup . The total weight of the helve of No 2 is about 6.4 tons.
- This is the modern equivalent of smith forging where the limited force of the blacksmith has been replaced by the mechanical or steam hammer. The process can be carried out by open forging where the hammer is replaced by a tup and the metal is manipulated manually on an anvil.
- Rockwell hardness test: A method of measuring hardness. The hardness is expressed as a number related to the depth of the residual penetration. A test for determining the hardness of a material based on the depth of penetration of a specified penetrator in to the specimen under certain arbitrarily fixed condition of test. A hardness test where the loss in kinetic energy of a falling diamond tipped metal ‘tup ’, absorbed by indentation upon impact of the tup on the metal being tested is indicated by the height of rebound.
Synonyms
* (male sheep) ramVerb
(tupp)- Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.
The Langley Chase Flock - explanation of tupping
- Tupping is the term used for when the rams cover the ewes. For our flock, this takes place in November when the ewes naturally come into season.
- I love her well enough to tup her, I suppose. A dangerous bit of business, that. She is as fertile as a bloody alluvial plain.
- I was the one who convinced her you would not tup her, and that if you did you would never lie with her against her will.
Synonyms
* (to have sex with)External links
The Langley Chase Flock – explanation of tupping
References
* 1902: Websters: - to butt. * 1986: Concise Oxford: - hammer.Etymology 2
Short for .Noun
(-)Anagrams
* * ----wether
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Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)citation, isbn= , page= , passage=There was a great fyer in the chamber, the wether was colde, and I saw now and then a Bishop come out;}} (cited after Samuel Roffey Maitland, 1866, p. 8)
