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Tope   /toʊp/   Listen
verb
Tope  v. i.  (past & past part. toped; pres. part. toping)  To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess. "If you tope in form, and treat."



noun
Tope  n.  A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.



Tope  n.  A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope. (India)



Tope  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus galeus syn. Galeus galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.
2.
(Zool.) The wren. (Prov. Eng.)






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"Tope" Quotes from Famous Books



... interest, tempered by a little disappointment, the article of Mr. F.A. MITCHELL-HEDGES on "Big Game Fishing in British Waters," in The Daily Mail of September 1st. He tells us of his experiences in catching the "tope," a little-known fish of the shark genus which may be caught this month at such places as Herne Bay, Deal, Margate, Ramsgate, Brighton and Bournemouth, where he has captured specimens measuring 7-1/2 feet long within two ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920 • Various

... pavilion tent In which whole armies might repose, With here and there a little rent, The sunset's beauty to disclose, The bamboo boughs that sway and swing 'Neath bulbuls as the south wind blows, The mangoe-tope, a close dark ring, Home of the rooks ...
— Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan • Toru Dutt

... playes weare every company had his pagiant, or parte, which pagiants weare a high scafolde with 2 rowmes, a higher and a lower, upon 4 wheeles. In the lower they apparelled themselves, and in the higher rowme they played, being all open on the tope, that all behoulders might heare and see them. The places where they played them was in every streete. They begane first at the abay gates, and when the first pagiante was played, it was wheeled to the high crosse before the mayor, and soe ...
— A History of Pantomime • R. J. Broadbent

... spirituous, tope He loathed as cats dissent from soap; And cider, if it touched his lip, Evoked ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce

... sight of a substantial-looking European house with a veranda round it, splendidly situated upon a hill, and surrounded by a high stone wall with a ditch on the outer side. Right against and overshadowing the house was an enormous pine, the tope of which we had seen through a glass for the last two days, but of course without knowing that it marked the site of the mission station. I was the first to see the house, and could not restrain myself from giving a hearty cheer, in which the ...
— Allan Quatermain • by H. Rider Haggard


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