kipe, n. Now dial.
(kaɪp)
Forms: 1 cype, 3–4 (?) cupe(ü), 4 kype, 6 kepe, 8–9 kipe.
[OE. c{yacu}pe wk. f., app. = LG. küpe (keupe) basket carried in the hand or on the back. LG. has also kîpe, kiepe (recorded from 15th c., also spelt kype, kypp); whence mod.G. kiepe, Du. kiepe(korf). The relationship of the forms is obscure, as is that between LG. küpe basket and kûpe tub, cask, and that of OE. c{yacu}pe to ME. cūpe: see coop n.1]
A basket; † spec. an osier basket used for catching fish (obs.); a basket used as a measure (dial.).
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Luke ix. 17 Man nam þa ᵹebrotu þe þar belifon, twelf cypan fulle. a 1100 in Napier O.E. Glosses xviii. 3 Corbes, cypan. c 1320 Cast. Love 1278 Twelf cupeful weoren vp i-bore. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 359 He was i-lete a doun in a cupe [v.r. kype] over þe wal. 1398 ― Barth. De P.R. xvii cxlii[i]. (MS. Bodl.) lf. 227 b/2 Wylowe..þerof beþ made diuers nedefulle þinges to house⁓hold as stoles sotels panyers and kuypes. 1558 Act 1 Eliz. c. 17 §3 No..Person..shall fish..with any manner of Net, Tramel, Kepe, Wore [etc.]. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Kipe, a Basket made of Osiers, broader at Bottom, and narrow'd by Degrees to the Top, but left open at both Ends; which is used for taking of Fish, particularly at Otmore in Oxford-shire, where this manner of Fishing is called Kiping, and going to Kipe. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Kipe, a strong osier basket with a twisted handle on each side, of circular form, but wider at the top than the bottom. Ibid. Intr. 85 A kype is often used as a measure for potatoes, apples, etc. When filled level with the top it equals a half⁓strike heaped. |
Hence kipe v. intr., to catch fish with a kipe. ˈkiping vbl. n.
| 1706 [see above]. |