Definition of "lipper" [lipper]

• Same as leaper. (noun)
• A thin piece of blubber cut in oblong shape, with slits in it, used to wipe up gurry or slumgullion from the deck of a whaler. (noun)
• A large metal ladle used for scooping up the oil from the deck of a whaler. (noun)
• To wipe with a lipper: followed by off: as, to lipper off the deck.
• Wet; rainy.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Brad Pitt packing a lipper is the kind of publicity tobacco companies can no longer buy, at least not legally."
• "Tim, last night there was a quick close-up of a player in the dugout packing a lipper."
• "That was blowin 'a fresh o' wind, an 'he jest lay down in the lee scuppers, and' I can't get no wetter, Posh, 'he say, and let the lipper slosh oover him."