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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Skipping, Skipinge, Scipping, Scouping, vbl. n. [Late ME and e.m.E. skyppynge (Prompt. Parv.), skipping (1590); Skip v.] a. The action of skipping or bounding. b. transf. or fig. In reading or preaching: The action of ‘leaping’ from place to place (in a text). —a. c1460 Wisd. Sol. (STS) 504.
Tyme of lauchinge, tym ofe gretinge, tyme of lepinge and skipinge a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 28 (L).
With skipping and trippin Thay hanttit ay in pairis 1590 Burel Pilgr. i 44.
The lyon and the leopard, From louping, and scouping war skard 1704 Cromarty Corr. I 267.
Yow escaped the trouble of your freinds convoys by leaping over the mountains and scipping over the hills in a machine of your own invention —b. 1560 Bk. Disc. 240.
Skipping and divagatioun frome place to place of the Scripture, be it in reiding, or be it in precheing
