† jowpy, jopy Arch. Obs.
Forms: 4 iowpe, 5 iowpye, iopee, iope, ioppe, ioppy, 5–6 iopy.
[A word recorded from Cambridge and East Anglia; app. orig. jow-pece, f. jow earlier form of jaw n.1: cf. the later jaw-piece s.v. jaw n.1 7, and jowl-piece.]
A cornice extending between the principals of a Gothic roof, and usually supporting the feet of the secondary principals.
| 1374 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 238 Wyndbems, suchlates Asthelers Corbels jowpes balkes summers. 1413–14 Ibid. II. 441 Item pro cariagio vnius trabis cum j jopy vs. 1432–3 Ibid. 446 Pro vj joppyes precii joppe xij{supd}. 1438 in J. Gage Suffolk (1838) 140 Having atwix iche two princeapals a purloyne a iope and iiij sparrys. 1448–9 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 10 The walplates of the seid hall shalbe..vij inches of Thiknes with jopees from bem to bem. 1452 Ibid. I. 282 Also Jowpyes xvjne inche in brede with a Batylment by nethe with a Crest above... Item atte euery end of the sengulers atte the Jowpye shalbe an Angell. 1466 Ibid. III. 93 Alle the gistes..shal rest vpon the crosse dormauntes and on the said ioppijs. 1504 in J. Gage Suffolk 150 Item, paid to Lyng for coloryng my closet, and the jopys in the hall 6s. 8d. |