seed-lip
(ˈsiːdlɪp)
Forms: 1–2 sǽdléap, 2 sed læp, 3 sedelip, sedlep, 4 sedelep, seed-leep, 5 sedlepe, seedlep(e, -leppe, ceed(eleep(e, 6 seede-leape, (7 seed-lappe, -lop, sydlop), 7–8 seed-leap, (8 dial. sidlup), 7– seedlip. Also seblet.
[OE. sǽdléap; see seed n. and leap n.2]
A basket in which seed is carried in the process of sowing by hand.
| c 1100 Gerefa in Anglia IX. 264/13 Man sceal habban..windlas, systras, syfa, sædleap, hriddel, hersyfe [etc.]. 1154 O.E. Chron. an. 1124, Swa þæt be tweonen Cristes messe & Candel messe man sælde þæt acer sæd hwæte þæt is tweᵹen sed læpas to six scillingas. 1235–52 Rentalia Glaston. (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 57 Unum sedelip plenum de frumento. c 1340 Nominale (Skeat) 861 Herce et semyloun. Harewe and sedelep. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 64/2 Ceed lepe or hopyr, satorium. c 1565 Abp. Parker Ps. cxxvi. 376 Who goeth from home: all heavily—With his seede-leape: his land to try. 1607 J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 81 God hath..sent forth..his holy Prophets with this soueraigne Seed in the spirituall seed-lappe. 1620 Markham Farew. Husb. iv. 36 To euery bushell of that seede you shall adde a bushell of Bay salt and mixe them very well together in your Hopper or Sydlop. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. xi. §4. 275 A Seed-lop, or Seed-lip, the Hopper, or Vessel wherein they carry their Seed at the time of Sowing. 1766 Complete Farmer 5 D 1/1 s.v. Lucern, The labourer, if he makes use of a peat-ash spoon and seed-lip, may sprinkle the rows of an acre in four or five hours. 1800 J. Hurdis Fav. Village 163 From the seedlip [he] scatters wide around The fruitful grain. 1884 Jefferies Life of Fields 150 A seed-lip, which is a vessel like a basket used in sowing corn. |