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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: ⁶tip Date: 1676 a game in which one player lightly bats a wooden peg and as it flies up strikes it again to drive it as far as possible while fielders try to recover it; also the peg used in this game

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a game with a short piece of wood tapering at the ends and struck with a stick. 2 this piece of wood.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tipcat Tip"cat`, n. A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air. In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. --Macaulay.