Lipper

noun

1. A thin piece of blubber cut in oblong shape, with slits in it, used to wipe up gurry or slumgullion from the deck of a whaler.
2. A large metal ladle used for scooping up the oil from the deck of a whaler.
3. Same as leaper.
4. To wipe with a lipper: followed by off: as, to lipper off the deck.
5. Wet; rainy.