ˈRippon Obs. exc. Hist.
The name of a town in Yorkshire (now written Ripon), used attrib. or ellipt. as a designation of spurs, for the manufacture of which it was formerly renowned.
| 1625 B. Jonson Staple of N. i. iii, There's an angel, if my Spurres Be not right Rippon. 1636 Davenant Wits v. i, With rowels of Sharp Rippon spurs. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Yorks. (1662) 190 As true Steel as Rippon Rowels. 1704 Swift Mech. Operat. Spir. Misc. (1711) 299 The former, while it is in the State of a Rider, wears huge Rippon Spurs. 1835 W. Irving Abbotsford §5 Around were hung..a Highland broadsword from Floddenfield; a pair of Rippon spurs from Bannockburn. 1850 Fairholt Costume (ed. 3) II. 349 Rippons, spurs. |