Definition of Tip table

1. Noun. A pedestal table whose top is hinged so that it can be tilted to a vertical position.

Exact synonyms: Tilt-top Table, Tip-top Table
Generic synonyms: Pedestal Table

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tip Table

tip of auricle
tip of elbow
tip of nose
tip of posterior horn
tip of the hat
tip of the iceberg
tip of tongue
tip off
tip one's hand
tip one's hat
tip out
tip outs
tip over
tip sheet
tip table (current term)
tip the can
tip the scale
tip the scales
tip the scales at
tip truck
tip up
tip wage credit
tipcart
tipcarts
tipcat
tipcats
tipi
tipifarnib
tipilike

Literary usage of Tip table

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"At length a very pretty, bright- eyed girl, who in England would have passed for a Lancashire witch, gave the word ' Tip, table! ..."

2. Revelations of Louise by Albert Stevens Crockett (1920)
"Before this, when requests came through the board to tip table, our spirit visitors had expressed a preference for a small room on the lower floor of the ..."

3. The Life and Letters of Washington Irving by Pierre Munroe Irving (1864)
"At length a very pretty, bright-eyed girl, who in England would have passed for a Lancashire witch, gave the word, " Tip, table ! ..."

4. Club Types of Nuclear Polynesia by William Churchill (1917)
"In table 21 is given the record for the lip on its outer face—the width across the angle, and the height from the bottom of the angle to the tip. TABLE 22. ..."

5. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1887)
"... abdomen obliquely truncate at tip. Table of Genera. Mi -"thorax polish«! without grooves. ..."

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