rippier Obs. exc. Hist.
(ˈrɪpɪə(r))
Forms: α. 6 repier, repar, repayre, repear, rypear, 6–7, 9 ripier. β. 6–8 rippier, 7 ryppier. γ. 6–7 ripper, 6 rippar.
[f. rip n.1 + -ier. In old statutes latinized as riparius, and supposed by Cowell and others to be derived from L. rīpa bank, shore.]
One who carries fish inland to sell.
| α a 1513 Fabyan Chron. (1516) 169 b/1 Repiers and other Fisshers commynge with Fysshe from Rye and Wynchylsee. c 1530 in Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.) 159 This yere..the rypears sold fish at London Hall in þe Lent. 1538 Leland Itin. (1769) V. 77 A poore Market, much standing by Repears that cary Fische from the Quarters of Cairmardine to the lowers Partes of Wales. 1591 Savile Tacitus, Hist. ii. lxii. 89 The hyewaies from both the seas sounded of nothing els but of caters and ripiers. [1880 Archæol. Cant. XIII. 206 The cess upon the Ripiers (or as they would now be termed ‘'long-shore-men’).] |
| β 1589 ? Lyly Pappe w. Hatchet L.'s Wks. 1902 III. 405 With the cloak cast ouer each shoulder like a rippier. 1598 Florio, Mutade, panniers or paddes, such as Rippiers bring fish in. 1607 Chapman Bussy d'Ambois iii. ii, Like a Rippiers legs rowl'd vp In bootes of haie ropes. c 1640 J. Smyth Hund. Berkeley (1885) 302 A common Inne in this village addes fame therto, by the constant customary baytes of the Ryppiers and their horses. 1709 in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1848) 144 The horses on which the rippiers..shall ride going on or towards London. 1778 Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Rye, They trowl for soles, plaise,..brills, &c. which are carried up every day by the rippiers (as the fishermen are called). |
| γ 1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 87 Who wold never suffer rippers to sell ther owne fische. 1598 Stow Surv. 147 The Rippars of Rie..solde their fresh fish in Leaden hall market. 1622 Fletcher Beggar's Bush v. i, But what's the action we are for now? ha: Robbing a Ripper of his fish? 1674 Ray S. & E.C. Words 75 A Ripper: a Pedder, Dorser or Badger, Suss. [Hence in Pegge, Grose, Holloway, etc.] |