† hoppe Obs.
Also 5 hoop(p)e.
[Cf. OE. hoppe, pl. hoppan, ‘ornament, ? small bell’ (Sweet). (Senses 1 and 2 are perhaps distinct words.)]
1. The seed-vessel of flax.
| c 1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in Wright Voc. 156 Le boceaus [du lyn] Gloss. hoppen [Camb. MS. flaxbolles]. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xcvii. (1495) 663 Floures of flex ben..blewe, and after comyth hoppys, and therin is the seed. And whan the hoppe begynnyth to wexe, thenne the flex is drawe vp. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 246/1 Hoope [v.r. hooppe], sede of flax. 1552 Huloet, Hoppes of flaxe or hemp, lincidulum. |
2. The cornel tree, and its fruit.
| 1499 Garlandia's Liber Equiv. Voc. (W. de W.), Corna, fructus corni, hoppe: cornus, quidam arbor, hoppe tre, ut quidam dicunt. |