† galopin Obs.
Also 6–7 gal(l)apine, gallepyn, gallopin.
[a. F. galopin, f. galoper to gallop.]
A turnspit; an errand-boy; a page.
| 1567 in G. Chalmers Life Mary Q. Scots (1818) I. 177 Christell Lamb, gallepyn, in the kitching. 1578 Househ. Ord. (1790) 252 Gallapines; apparell for them of the hall, kytchen, and pryvy kytchin. a 1610 Diet, etc. Dk. York in Archæologia (1806) XV. 7 For the Kytchen and Gallopins. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's xxxiv, So saying, he gave the little galopin his donative, and a slight rap on the pate. |