hipple Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈhɪp(ə)l)
Forms: 4 huple, hypil, hipil, -yll, heepil, 5 heple, hupple, 9 dial. hipple.
[dim. of heap:—OE. type *h{iacu}epel, *h{yacu}pel: cf. Ger. häufel, MHG. hiufel.]
A little heap. † hipyllmelum = *hipplemeal, in heaps, by heaps: see -meal.
| 1382 Wyclif 2 Chron. xxxi. 9 Why the heepils schulden so lyen. ― Isa. xvii. 1 Damasch shal..be as an hypil [1388 heep] of stones. ― Wisd. xviii. 23 Whan forsothe now hipyllmelum thei hadden fallen dead, either vp on other. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxxii. (Tollem. MS.) [Hay is] gadered and made of heples into cockes. 1480 Caxton Descr. Brit. i. xxii. (1527) 19 b, Hepes and hupples of stones and of grauell. 1788 W. Marshall Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Hipples, cocklets, or small bundles of hay set up to dry. |