tup

A male sheep, a ram.

... 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

The head of a hammer, and particularly of a steam-driven hammer.

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.

http://www.key-to-steel.com/Articles/Art168.htm This is the modern equivalent of smith forging where the limited force of the blacksmith has been replaced by the mechanical or steam hammer.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.

To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe.

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.

To have sex with, to bonk, etc.

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.

To butt.

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