tipcat

A small child played tipcat in the archway of the inn's stableyard.

Motor cars were rare, slow and often out of action, so that we had plenty of scope for spinning-tops, games with marbles and cherry-stones, tipcat, and a bowler and hoop.

One Sunday, after listening to a sermon in church on the wickedness of Sabbath-breaking, he was playing at tipcat (a predecessor of cricket) when he suddenly heard a voice cry, 'Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven, or have thy sins and go to Hell?'