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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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S(c)hop, S(c)hap, n. Also: shope, shoop. [Var. of Chop n.1 See also Schere-schop n.] A shop; a workshop. Also attrib. with clerk, dure.To open (one's) shop door, to open (a shop) for business. = Opin v. 1 c.(1) 1563 Dumfries B. Ct. fol. 197b.
He sall nocht molest … the inpassing & outepassing to the litill schop within the stane stair 1584 Sempill Sat. P. xlv 879.
Ane burges man … Having a trvme schop in the toun … he socht To get a licence [etc.] 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 124/206.
A great Large shop [v.r. chope] … Where magnifiquelie God displaid His treasures 1644 Edinb. Test. LXI 41b.
In his schop or booth certane drogs & mendicaments 1664 Dumbarton B. Rec. 84.
Danger of fyre, from the incomodiousness of the smithis shops in the centre of the town 1670 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III 657.
He espyed tuo men running to the east syde of the street, quher the said Thomas Irving his shope was, and fearing some prejudice as to his shope, some shopes in the toune haveing bein ruffelled some nights before [etc.] 1678 Douglas Bequest II 15 March.
That litle merchand schop … upon the west syd of the gait 1685 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 26 Oct.
Shoop 1686 Depred. Clan Campbell 43.
Tuo dalle shops, which were wholly burnt and destroyed be them(b) c1700 Pennecuik Poems 391.
He was in the taylor's shap(2) attrib. 1498 Aberd. B. Rec. I 67.
Ane schap clerk 1673 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 25 Oct.
John Levingstoun to pay to John Hendrie phiscall fyve hundreth merkis Scots for opening of his shop door eftir he was discharged be the … counsell
