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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Slip(p)on, Slippen, n. [Slip v. and ? On adv.] a. Appar. a ring or buckle used as a means of attaching one thing to another, specif. in horse-harnessing (cf. SND slippond (Slip n.1 2) ‘A metal ring attaching the swingle-trees of a plough to the trace-chains from the harness’), and in attaching a bayonet to the musket muzzle (C. R. Beard s.v. slip-on). b. Some part of the construction of a window. Glen Pride in Glossary of Scottish Building suggests the sashes. —a. 1538 Treas. Acc. VII 100.
To Williame Forrest for the making and furnysing of ane haill harnessing, bukkillis, thrissillis, slippennis and all uthir gere pertenyng thairto, till ane of the kingis grete hors, deliverit to Johnne Mosmanne to gilt 1540 Treas. Acc. VII 391.
For twa hundreth fourty aucht grete sliponis witht lyoun hedis upoun thame [sc. for horse-harnessing] 1691 C. Lawson A History of the Uniforms of the British Army I 65.
[A grenadier company of the Cameronians is … provided with] … 60 bayonets with slipones conform [This apparently means ‘ring bayonets’] —b. 1536–7 Ayr B. Acc. 20.
Item to Alexander Bollok for putting of the irnis and slipponis in the wyndokis xvj d.
