Tup Running (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Tup Running

A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire; a ram, whose tail is well soaped and greased, is turned out to the multitude; any one that can take him by the tail, and hold him fast, is to have him for his own.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Tup * T—d

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