A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Rip, n.2 [Of unknown origin. SND conjectures, after OED, perhaps ‘a development from rip’ Rip v. (SND, s.v. Rip n.2).] A wisp or handful of unthreshed grain used as decoration, also as a sample of the grain to be poinded. —c1650 Spalding II 409.
Ilk one had in his cap or bonet ane rip of oatis quhilk wes his sing 1698 Fountainhall Decis. II 28.
Cathcart poinded the corns standing in the stooks … and carried a rip of them to the market-cross
