Pip’pin, n.

n. [Probably from pip, a spot, because of the spots on its skin; O. D. pipping, puppung, N. D. pippeling.] A kind of tart apple.

We will eat a last year's pippin. Shak.

☞ This name, in America, is given to several kinds of apples, as to the Newtown pippin, the summer pippin, and other varieties.