A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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Quotation dates: 1510-1582, 1633-1652
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Hepit, Heip(p)it, ppl. adj. Also: haipit, heapit. [e.m.E. heaped, ME. heepyd, heped (1402).]
1. Heaped up, accumulated.1513 Doug. i. Prol. 228.
This sam buke eyk, in mair hepit malyce, … says playnly [etc.]
2. a. Of (oat)meal: Rising in a heap above the rim or sides of the containing measure.1510 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 10.
To ... pave ... tene bollis of hepit [pr. hopit] meill1546 Acts Lords of Council XX. 116 b.
xx bollis hepit meill 1551 Protocol Book of Sir William Corbet 16.
[To] paye … iij bollis of hepit ayet meill 1553 Reg. Great S. 183/2.
xx bollas farine cumulate, viz. heippit meill 1582 Cal. Chart. (1899) 258.
[To pay] thre bollis … rynnen met beir and vther thre bollis … heippit ait meill 1633 Buccleuch Mun. II. 272.
Tuelve bolles victuall, half heir, half heipit aitt meill
b. Of measures: So full that the contents rise higher than the rim or sides.c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4188.
Thre hepit buschellis wer of ryngis found 1543 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 191.
Ane mesour to mett … the malt, of alse gryt quantitie as the haipit firlott extendis to 1579 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I. 81.
Sua that all fourletis, pekis, and vther mesouris war maid of the lairgnes of the heipit mett, to be straikit and nocht heipit 1652 Peebles B. Rec. II. i.
James Haldine [miller] has contravenit the [former actes in taking] ane heapit capfull floore for ilk boll [of wheat]
