▪ I. champed, ppl. a.1
(tʃæmpt)
[f. champ v. + -ed1.]
Chewed vigorously; dial. pounded, mashed.
| 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 56 To apply raw Wheat champed or chawed a long time. 1788 Picken Poems 63 (Jam.) A cog o' champit kail. 1805 A. Scott On Potatoes Poems 154 (Jam.) A wally dish o' them weel champit. |
▪ II. † champed, ppl. a.2 Obs.
Sc. champit.
[perh. f. champ in sense ‘field, ground’; hence having raised figures on a ground of a distinct colour and texture; but perh. connected with prec.]
Having raised figures; embossed, diapered. (Jam.)
| 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. xlvi, Satine figures champit with flouris and bewis. 1539 Inv. Roy. Wardr. (1815) 32 (Jam.) Ane gowne of crammasy velvot, champit like dammes with ane braid pasment of gold. 1573 in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. I. 378 Item, oone standynge cup, the bodie champt and cover partli christall. 1612 Inv. in M{supc}Kay Hist. Kilmarnock 308 Ane stande of greine champit curteinis. |