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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1507-1508, 1561-1602, 1656

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Nap, n.2 Also: nape. Plur. nap(p)is, -es. [Var. of Nop n.: cf. also e.m.E. nap (1589), nappe, nap of cloth, and Norw. napp.] In plur.: Flock. = Nop n. (See also Nape n.2).1507 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II. 266.
Duos lectos de le nappes
1507–8 Rentale Dunkeld. MS. 58 b.
Per empcionem duarum petrarum lie nappis [v.r. noppis]
1561–2 Treasurer's Accounts XI. 103.
iiij stane nappis to thair beddis and boustaris
1564–5 Ib. 347.
For nappis and fedderis
1595 Brechin Testaments I. 130.
Ane bed of nappes & fedderis v lib.
1602 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 96 b.
Sewin stane of mill nappis to stik the matt with
1656 Craig-Brown Selkirkshire II. 390.
The 3 walkmilnes payes in the year £60, and 3 stone of napes

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