tope

A small shark (Galeorhinus galeus) that has a long pointed snout and is commercially harvested for food and oil.

To drink (liquor) habitually and excessively or engage in such drinking.

An Australasian shark, Galeus australis. It differs somewhat from Galeus galeus, the tope of Great Britaiu. In Australia also called school-shark. E. E. Morris, Austral English.

To drink alcoholic liquors to excess, especially to do so habitually.

Same as top.

The European wren.

A kind of shark, the miller’s-dog or penny-dog, Galeorhinus galeus, or Galeus canis; also, one of several related sharks of small size, some of them also called dogfish.

The popular name for a type of Buddhist monument, which may be considered as a tumulus of masonry, of domical or tower-like form, many specimens of which occur in India and southeastern Asia, intended for the preservation of relics or the commemoration of some event.

In India, a grove or clump of trees: as, a toddy- tope; a cane –tope.