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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lope, Loip, v. Also: lop(p, loipp. [Later 16th and 17th c. variant of Lowp v. : cf. late north. ME. lope (Cath. Angl.), e.m.E. lope (1572), loape, also widespread in mod. Eng. dial.For the p.t. and p.p. see Lepe v.¹ and head-note to Lowp v.]

intr. and tr. To spring, jump, leap, etc. = Lepe v.¹, Lowp v.(1) 1529 Lynd. Complaynt 251.
Go, all, to the hie boirdall. Thare may we lope at lybertie a1605 Montg. Misc. P. vii. 19.
The mair thou loipis, the les is thy relief, The mair thou flings, the faster is the net 1604 Craig i. 21.
At libertie alas shall fauns and satyrs lope [: hope](2) 1612 Highland P. III. 122.
The fauour granted … may … tempt some … to lope furth whill they may obteaue the lyke fredome(3) 1597 Elgin Rec. II. 50.
Gif hevin wer besyid hir and hell on the other syid scho wald laif hevin and loipp in hell 1600-1610 Melvill 64.
I thought I saw a read-headit tead lope out of it [the cup] c 1630 Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 170.
Certaine of the biggest of the adders did lope high above the water 1659 Rothesay Par. Rec. 13.
A fall which she gott loppeing over a ditch(4) 1536 Lynd. Answ. Flyting 50.
On ladronis for to loip ȝe wyll nocht lat(5) a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 444 (L).
Luik quhair thow lycht befoir thow loip [: hoip] 1604-31 Craig v. 23.
To looke before I lope [: hope](6) 1600-1610 Melvill 259.
[The horse] lopes the supersault(7) 1549 Compl. 151/1.
Buciphal … syne tholit hym to lope on hym 1609 Crim. Trials III. 46.
Ȝe sall go with me and loip on vpoun ȝour horse and raik fordwart to Lytill Lochwod(8) 1600-1610 Melvill 167.
Giff Mr. James Lawsones head war als grait as a haystak he sould cause it lope from his hause(9) a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xliv. 31.
I quake for feir, my puncis lope [: hope](10) 1600-1610 Melvill 259.
Approtching to a strype … aught feet brod, I put at the hors to cause him lope it 1609 Crim. Trials III. 47.
He lopis the wall. Schir James … lowpand the toun wall [etc.] 1675 Forbes Baron Ct. 299.
Anj who lops the yaird dykes(11) 1656 Nicoll Diary 188.
The Inglisches dois guid justice aganes publict offendaris in the airmy … by causing of thair sodgeris loip the gad