tope

present singular third person topes · participle present toping · participle past toped · past toped

1. archaicintransitiveTo drink excessively; to get drunk.

   [I]f he has been toping all Night vvith his pretty Landlady Thetis; ſo has your Lordſhip vvith ſvveet little Jenny at the Thatcht-Houſe, […]

   [1709], Tho[mas] d’Urfey, The Modern Prophets: Or, New Wit for a Husband. A Comedy. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1

plural topes

1. A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus, that has rough skin and a long snout.

plural topes

1. IndiaA grove of trees.

   1868?, James Grant, First Love and Last Love Concealed among the long rank grass of the mango tope the three lurkers watched the gate of the camp; but though many passcd out and in, the rider on the bay mare was not one of the number.

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   In addition, a memorandum was kept containing receipts and issues of toddy drawn at a toddy tope.

   2011, Chandra Mallampalli, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India

plural topes

1. A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.

plural topes

1. IndiaobsoleteA cannon (weapon).

   They found him strongly posted near the fortress of Deeg, in the midst of bogs, tanks, and topes, and formidably defended by artillery.

   1857, Cassell's Illustrated History of England, page 269

plural Topes

1. A surname.