[I]f he has been toping all Night vvith his pretty Landlady Thetis; ſo has your Lordſhip vvith ſvveet little Jenny at the Thatcht-Houſe, […][1709], Tho[mas] d’Urfey, The Modern Prophets: Or, New Wit for a Husband. A Comedy. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
1868?, James Grant, First Love and Last Love Concealed among the long rank grass of the mango tope the three lurkers watched the gate of the camp; but though many passcd out and in, the rider on the bay mare was not one of the number.
In addition, a memorandum was kept containing receipts and issues of toddy drawn at a toddy tope.2011, Chandra Mallampalli, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India:
tope
noun
Etymology Probably from Pali thūpa. Doublet of stupa.
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A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.
tope
noun
Etymology Borrowed from Hindi तोप (top), which in turn is borrowed from Classical Persian توپ (tōp). Ultimately loaned from a Turkic word, which is derived from Proto-Turkic *top. Compare Turkish top.
They found him strongly posted near the fortress of Deeg, in the midst of bogs, tanks, and topes, and formidably defended by artillery.1857, Cassell's Illustrated History of England, page 269: