Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tipcat \Tip"cat`\, n.
   A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends,
   called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as
   to fly into the air.

         In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood
         staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand.
                                                  --Macaulay.