Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




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.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"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
... several cooking-pots were slung about him, to say nothing of a cork mattress and a mackintosh sheet tied in a flat bundle to his shoulders, a box containing medicines and food which he carried on his head, and fastened to the top of it with string like a helmet on a coffin, an enormous solar-tope stuffed full of mosquito netting, of which the ends fell about him like a green veil. When Alan remonstrated with him as to the cork mattress, suggesting that it should be thrown away as too hot to wear, ...
— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard
... the sea-serpent this year a tope weighing thirty-nine pounds has been captured at Hastings. The fisherman who caught it declares that if he had known it was a tope at the time he would not have been in such a hurry ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, July 25, 1917 • Various
... which the Mahawanso gives of the consecration of the great Tope at Ruanwelli, by Dutthagamini, King of Ceylon (B.C. 157), 280,000 priests (!) come from Kashmir, a far greater number than is assigned to any other country except one. (J. A. S. B. ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... name I misremember, 'Take the women over to that tope av trees yonder. Get thim out av the camp. 'Tis ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com