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ti puht

  • n  a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten

  • He Is Prominent in the Rotary Club of Literary New York Alexander Woollcott has added a species of small tippet to his facial equipment.
  • Since the fly is attached to the line with a gossamer-thin tippet, a fisherman must use the long, sensitive rod to tire the trout as it surges and runs, leaps and sometimes .
  • When a pedestrian did pass by the dog nuzzled her sleeve, seized her tippet, trotted beside, baying.
News & Articles

  • John Berry: My newest fishing aid
    Several decades ago, when I began fly-fishing, the equipment we used was much different. I wore rubberized, cotton, boot foot waders and cast with a fiberglass rod. A 4X tippet was 4-pound test, and we hand-tied our own leaders.
    June 19, 2013 - Baxter Bulletin
  • Budget cuts take toll on career centers
    Recently employed Americans like Tim Tippet have discovered that finding a new job isn't always a case of getting everything you want. Now the career centers that help local out-of-work people like him are feeling the same pinch, after absorbing a significant cut to their federal funding this past year.
    June 15, 2013 - The MetroWest Daily News
Quotes

  • Mary Louisa Molesworth in The Guardian
    Mrs Molesworth writes of Griselda: "A little girl in a grey merino frock and grey beaver bonnet, grey tippet and grey gloves - all grey together, even to her eyes, all except her round rosy face and bright brown hair. Her name even was rather grey,...
  • Rodney Eade in Melbourne Herald Sun
    He is quite impressive, Tippet, and Burton can play tall, and they have (Ken) McGregor, and (Nathan) Bock can go down there as well, so we will need some tall defenders,Eade said. "Three of our injured players are our key defenders and we...

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