† kipsey, kibsey Obs. exc. dial.
Also 7 kybzey.
[Origin uncertain: cf. kipe.]
A small wicker-basket.
| 1615 Markham Eng. Housew. iii. i. (1668) 96 With a gathering hook, gather those which be full Ripe, and put them into your Cherry-pot, or Kybzey, hanging by your side or upon any bough you please. 1706 Phillips, Kibsey, a kind of Wicker-basket. 1754 Martin Eng. Dict. (ed. 2), Kibsy, a sort of wicker basket. 1879 Horsley in Macm. Mag. XL. 501, I was coming home with my kipsy (basket). |