▪ I. staup, n. north.
(stɔːp)
[f. staup v.]
(See quot. 1825.)
| 1825 Jamieson Suppl., Staup 1. A long awkward step, Roxb. 2. A tall awkward person; as ‘Haud aff me, ye muckle lang staup’, ibid. 1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches xvii. 185, I was..Never a happer-hippit staup of a thing like yourself. |
▪ II. staup, v. north.
(stɔːp)
Also stoep.
[? Altered from step v., with vowel symbolic of awkward movement.]
(See quot. 1788.)
| 1788 W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 356 To Staup; to lift the feet high, and tread heavily in walking. a 1857 J. Rayson Misc. Poems (1858) 55 They stoep i' their walking, leyke stegs amang heather. |
▪ III. staup
variant of stap n. stave of a cask.