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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1551-1661
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Creping, Creiping, ppl. adj. Also: crieping, creaping. [ME. crepinge, -ynge, f. Crepe v.]
1. Creeping, crawling. 1551 Hamilton Catechism 49.
Byrdis and four futtit beistis, and … creping beistis 1587-99 Hume ii. 173.
Euerie litil creiping thing, or vther animant 1649 Lamont Diary 11.
This summer … thar werre seine a great number of crieping things [on the corn]
2. Applied to a make of crape or grogram. 1593 Edinburgh Testaments XXV. 187 b.
xxviij elnes … creiping craip of worset 1642 Ib. LX. 42.
Thrie peice of creiping craipe 1645 Ib. LXI. 118.
Some Turkis grogrames with some creiping & louping 1661 Funeral Acc. MS. i. 4.
14 ells of creaping creap
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