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3 lettersPronunciation /tʌp/Part of speech nounSorted ptuStarts with TEnds with P0 clues
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Definitions

  1. uncastrated adult male sheep

Word origin

From Middle English tupe (compare Scots tuip), origin unknown.

Used in a sentence

  • ... 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.
  • Even now, now, very now, an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.

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