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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1512, 1567-1694
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Chopin stoup, n. Also: choppyne stowp, choppyn stoip, chopin stope, etc.; scopin stowp, schopein stoip, schoppin stowp; schappein stopp, schappine stoup. [See Chopin n., Schopin n. and Stoup n.1] A drinking vessel containing a chopin.(a) c1500-c1512 Dunb. xl. 26 (B).
Off wyne out of ane choppyne stowp [M. scopin stowp] They drank twa quartis, sowp and sowp 1567 Edinburgh Testaments I. 12 b.
Thre choppin stowp[is] of tyn and twa muchkynis of tyn 1569 Inverness B. Rec. I. 180.
Ane treyne dische, … ane choppyn stoip 1580 Coll. Aberd. & B. 391.
Tyne quart stoppis iiij, with ane chopin stoppe 1589 Exchequer Rolls XXII. 73.
Four quart flaconis of tin, and ane chopin stope 1591 Criminal Trials I. 252.
Ane potioun of composit walter … to be brocht vp … in ane chopene stoup 1604 Aberd. Kirk S. 39.
Scho … past to the fluid … with ane chopin stoup and fillit the same full of the fluid watter 1628 Edinburgh Testaments LIV. 254 b.
Ane choppeine and ane mutchkeine stoupe 1633 Ann. Banff I. 70.
Ane tine choppin stoupt, wherof the names … war brunt off be ane tayngis 1651 Buccleuch Mun. II 291.
Twa tin schoppin stowpes 1653 Edinburgh Testaments LXVII. 119 b.
One choping & one muchkeing stoupes 1694 Inchmahome Priory 161.
Of chopine stoups, 2(b) 1627 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III 529.
Ane schappein stopp in peuder 1646 Edinburgh Testaments LXI 266.
Twa schappine stoups
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