Rockwell hardness test: A method of measuring hardness. The hardness is expressed as a number related to the depth of the residual penetration. A test for determining the hardness of a material based on the depth of penetration of a specified penetrator in to the specimen under certain arbitrarily fixed condition of test. A hardness test where the loss in kinetic energy of a falling diamond tipped metal ‘tup’, absorbed by indentation upon impact of the tup on the metal being tested is indicated by the height of rebound.
I was the one who convinced her you would not tup her, and that if you did you would never lie with her against her will.
to tie up rams, which could not be supposed to much used to handling ... having often heard for a proverb, as mad as a tup in an halter.
Tupping is the term used for when the rams cover the ewes. For our flock, this takes place in November when the ewes naturally come into season.