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(Slopping,) Slapping, vbl. n. Also: slop(e)-, sloap-, slap-, slepping. [Slop v.] The action of sense 1 of the verb; also, specif. the demolition (of walls, etc.) or taking down (of stones) for re-use. 1585 Perth B. Ct. 20 July.
Valter Burnetis bak gauill vall vranguslie slappit and tane doun be him as said is als gude and sufficient as the samin wes the tyme of the slepping and breking doun thairof 1623–24 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 159.
For cutting and slapping ane pairt of the bulwark for inbringing of the peices and putting of it up againe 1674 Master of Works Accounts MS XXX 3.
Payed to workmen for slapping of stone dykes in St Annes yairds for winning of stones for the great syver 1677 Mylne Master Masons 199.
To qwarriers and barrowmen for slapping and taking dovne the stones at the deanes lodging 1682 Edinb. City Archives Moses Bundle 254 No. 7738.
For meason work and furniture in slopeing 2 windowes out in the stable 1694 Foulis Acc. Bk. 167.
For slaping out a door of comunication twixt him and the house in Starks close 1701 Cramond Kirk S. IV 23 July.
Sloaping 1706 Foulis Acc. Bk. 432.
To David Ross for … sloping the walls for the jests
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