A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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*Hottopyis, Hottipios, Hoypyis, Houtipas. [?: F. haut pays in some such sense as ‘higher or more inland district’, and thus perh. = Land-wyn(e n., suggests itself, but there is no record of the F. phrase as applied to wines in the F. dictionaries.] The name of a variety of wine (perh. that of its district of origin) and its standard of measure. —1553 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 1851578–9 Reg. Privy C. III. 118. (see Bind n. 2 b). The price of the tun of Burdeaux wyne for fiftie pundis, and the price of hottopyis bind for fowrtie sex pundis;
Hoypyis wyne and Hoypyis bynd 1583 Perth B. Ct. 17 Sept.
Tua puncheonis of hottipiois bind being smaller bind 1590 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 153.
That the hail treis. .salbe of the quantitie of fyvtene gallounes and the houtipas treis nocht to be translatit
