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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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(Pap,) Paip(e, Paape, n.2 (In paip glas, glas paip, and standing alone: uncertain, but ? prob. a spec. applic. of Pap,n.1, standing for some variety of glass vessel which in function or appearance or both simulated the human teat.) —(1) 1575 Edinb. Test. III. 318.
Ipothecar … In his buith … five paape glasis price of the pece iij s. 1641 Ib. LIX. 269.
Flacit glasis, paip glasis, vineigar glasis —(2) 1646 Ib. LXII. 271 b.
Sex glass paipes —(3) 1632 Ib. LVI. 25.
Ane dussone bairnes paipes for souking
