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chippa

chippa, ~um [ME chep < AS cyp (orAN chep) < cippus] , ‘chep’, share-beam of plough. Cf. cippus 1b. 1248 caruc’: ‥ in hayes et chipp ad idem ix d. Ac. Man. Portland; 1278 in iiij chepp’ emptis et in carucis ponendis, viij d. Ac. Man. Cant. (Appledore) ; 1279 in v bemes ad carucas ‥ xiiij d.; in vij chipp’, iiij d. ob. Ac. Stratton 229; c1285 faber ‥ non capiat argentum pro novo vomere equando ad cheppum Cust. Suss II 4; 1345 in vj shepp' emptis, vj d. Ac. Man. Cant. (Cliffe) ; 1364 in reparacione j ~e pro caruca, j d. Ac. Man. Wint. (Vernham Dean) ; 1371 in carucis reparandis, cheppis imponendis et aliis apparatibus ad idem faciendis Ac. Man. Cant. (Chartham) .

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