Significats de tip-up en anglès

The fishhook is baited in the usual way and hung on a line from the short end of the tip-up.

So his inventive genius set itself to work and the "tip-up" and "signal" shown in the illustration was the result.

Both gazed at the tipped-up ice boat in very great dismay.

That's how they came to be called tip-ups.

"Tip-ups, you call them; that has to do with the lines, don't it?"

Vivian and Jonathan looked with great interest at an instant of rainy street and a house with tipped-up ends to its roof.

Patricia retained enough of her spirit to look the amused lady calmly in the eyes, while her pretty tipped-up nose assumed a more sprightly angle.