A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1494-1700+
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Slop, Slap, v. Also: sloppe, sloap, slape. P.t. and p.p. sloppit, slappit, also, sloped, slapit, sloapped, slopt, etc. [Slop n.1] tr.
1. To breach, hole, make gaps or holes in (a wall, etc., also, a ship). Also const. throw, in. b. To make a hole to accommodate (a door or window). Also const. out.(1) 1513 Doug. ix viii 110.
To fyll the fowseis and the wallis to slop 1533 Boece 174.
The dike, be thame and Pichtis for the maist parte sloppit and bet down 1555–6 Edinb. B. Rec. II 232.
The Borrow-loch to be lattin furth and the dyke thairof sloppit sua that it may ryn quhair it ran of befoir 1558-66 Knox I 204.
A galay … was so doung with the cannoun … that she was slopped [pr. stopped] under watter, and so almost drowned 1640 Misc. Maitl. C. III 479.
[The] garisoun … hes schot att the burgh of Edinburgh and sloped houses c1650 Spalding I 297.
The tua Scottis schippis winis away, suppose sore sloppit 1672 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XIV 329.
Sloppe 1701 Cramond Kirk S. IV 16 June.
That the said wall may be sloapped to make the communication between his lordships isle … and the church 1701 Cramond Kirk S. IV 23 July.
Sloap(b) 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 211.
The men of weare of the steipill slappit all the pendis of the kirk a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 95.
He cawsit shute at the toun wall … and slappit the wall at tua partis 15… Crawford Mun. Invent. II 204.
Slapit 1644 Glasgow Chart. II 623.
To lay … vent to the said compleinars gavell and not to slap or holl the samein(2) c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 723.
The Inglis artailȝe … sloppit throw thair fechting saillis 1603 Shetland Sheriff Ct. MS 71b.
Isbell Crab hes slap in hir winter dyk and thairfoir to pay 1 merkb. (1) 1639 Thanes of Cawdor 284.
To slape ane door betwixt the new work and the chalmer 1695 Foulis Acc. Bk. 185.
In the back house, sloping a door and window(2) 1661 Edinb. B. Rec. IX 252.
To make new dooris quher they ar to be slopt out 1684 Glamis Bk. Record 36.
Three new windows slaped out 1686 Mason's Contract in Atholl Mun.
To … slap out the enterie door to the gallerie
2. To make breaches in (the ranks of) an army, body of troops.1494 Loutfut MS 129b.
The part of the front of the batell that is scalit … wil be soner sloppit be thair inemys & deuidit & vencust 1513 Doug. ix viii 120.
And brycht arrayt cumpany of the men War diuidit or sloppit 1513 Doug. x viii 6.
The quhilk Turnus … The myd rowtis went sloppand heir and thar 1531 Bell. Boece (M) I 189.
Thai fell oft tymes amang mossis myris and craggis throw quhilk thair army wer oft tymes sloppit, nocht knawing the ground 1531 Bell. Boece II 158.
Thus wer the Pichtis sloppit [M. stoppitt] with huge slauchter 1533 Bell. Livy I 86/13.
Thai nocht alanerlie dang and sloppit the Sabynis legiouns, bot als put thame to flicht
3. To wound by cutting or piercing (a person, his or her body).1531 Bell. Boece I 153.
Mony of thaim, sloppit throw the body, fel downe above thair slaaris 1533 Boece 47b.
To … behald our lufit spousis … sloppand athir with woundis 1533 Boece 241.
Thay bludy boucheouris ar reiosit with terribill swerdis or dartis to slop the bodyis of febill decreppit folkis 1533 Boece 320b.
He was sloppit with ane spere a1538 Abell 57(bis)a.
Sche slippit hir self on ane swerd … and sa sche endit
