Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tipple \Tip"ple\, n. [Cf. 3d {Tip}.]
   An apparatus by which loaded cars are emptied by tipping;
   also, the place where such tipping is done.

Tipple \Tip"ple\, v. t.
   1. To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.

            Himself, for saving charges, A peeled, sliced onions
            eats, and tipples verjuice.           --Dryden.

   2. To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.

Tipple \Tip"ple\, n.
   Liquor taken in tippling; drink.

         Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico.   --S. B.
                                                  Griffin.

Tipple \Tip"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tippled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Tippling}.] [From tip a small end, or a word akin to it; cf.
   Norw. tipla to tipple, to drip, Prov. E. tip, tiff, tift, a
   draught of liquor, dial. G. zipfeln to eat and drink in small
   parts. See {Tip} a point, and cf. {Tipsy}.]
   To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge
   in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors;
   especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but
   without absolute drunkeness.

         Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and
         those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple
         in alehouses than to pace the streets.   --Macaulay.

Source : WordNet®

tipple
     n : a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg;
         "they served beer on draft" [syn: {draft}, {draught}, {potation}]

tipple
     v : drink moderately but regularly; "We tippled the cognac"
         [syn: {bib}]