lippy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪpi/
ipa: /ˈlɪpɪ/
rhymes: -ɪpi
Forms: form: lippies
form: lippie
Etymology: From leap (“trap or snare for fish made from twigs; (obsolete) basket”) + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.
ref: 1742, Virgil, “Appendix to the Georgicks”, in James Hamilton, transl., Virgil’s Pastorals Translated into English Prose; as also His Georgicks, […], Edinburgh: Printed by W. Cheyne, […]; [s]old by J. Traill and G. Crawford, […]; and by J. Barry […], →OCLC, page 43:
text: [T]he valuation of lands, tenor of leaſes, the rents, the entails, rent charges, life rents, and payments for or out of land revenue, are all reckoned in Scotland by the chalder, boll, firlot, and lippy, and cannot be altered; [...]
ref: 1786, Daniel De Foe [i.e., Daniel Defoe], “Appendix. Part I. Containing an Account of Transactions in both Parts of the United Kingdoms, subsequent to the Union; […]”, in A History of the Union between England and Scotland, with a Collection of Original Papers Relating thereto. […], London: Printed for John Stockdale, […], →OCLC, page 600:
text: A miniſter's ſtipend is paid by the heritors as follows: James Speers pays 3 bolls 3 firlots 1 peck 3 lippies oats, 2 bolls barley, and L. 3 : 15 : 4; [...]
ref: 1798, Robert Hamilton, “Subtraction”, in An Introduction to Merchandise. […], 2nd corrected and revised edition, Edinburgh: Printed for Charles Elliot, […]; and for C. Elliot, T. Kay, and Co. […], →OCLC, §19, paragraph XIII, page 19:
text: You good Pastors, [...] you who can prevail upon your parishioners to pay the last lippy of your modified tithes, [...]
ref: 1825 May, “Statistical Sketch of the Present State of the Established and Dissenting Churches in Scotland. Spring-meeting of the United Associate Synod 1825.”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany, being a New Series of the Scots Magazine, volume XVI, Edinburgh: Printed [by J. Ruthven & Son] for Archibald Constable & Company, →OCLC, page 598, column 1:
text: A Scotch barley boll contains 5 bushels, 3 pecks, 2 lippies, and a little more, according to the Winchester gallon. A Scotch barley boll, according to the legal measure, contains 6 bushels, wanting a little more than ½ lippie.
ref: 1852, “BRUCE, Robert”, in Robert Chambers, editor, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, new edition, division II (Brown–Dalrymple), Glasgow; Edinburgh: Blackie and Son, →OCLC, page 365:
text: It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her.
ref: 1860, Thomas Pattieson, “The Smith and the Fairies”, in J[ohn] F[rancis] Campbell, transl., Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected: With a Translation, volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 61:
text: Now there are perhaps 24 hogsheads sown yearly, every tenant and crofter having from one to four lippies. The increase is about one stone from the lippie.
ref: 1871 March, “Three-quarters of a Century Ago. Fortingal.”, in The Poor Law Magazine and Journal of Public Health, volume IV, number IV (New Series), Glasgow: Published for the promoters by N. Adshead, […], →OCLC, page 290:
synonyms: forpet
glosses: An old dry measure amounting to one quarter of a peck (for goods sold by weight, 1¾ pounds or about four-fifths of a kilogram); also, a container of that capacity.