tip

1. tip (verb) — sense 1

Definition: (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn.

2. tip (verb) — sense 2

Definition: (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced.

Example: the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two […]

3. tip (verb) — sense 3

Definition: To cause the contents of a container to be emptied out by tilting it.

Example: The workshop with its smithy is still intact, also the loading stage where the narrow-gauge wagons tipped their contents into those of the G.W.R.

4. tip (noun) — sense 4

Definition: The knocking over of a skittle.

5. tip (noun) — sense 5

Definition: An act of tipping up or tilting.

6. tip (noun) — sense 6

Definition: An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump.

Example: There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.