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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Nep(e, Neip, Nip(e, n.¹ [ME. and e.m.E. nep(e, neppe (15th c.), neep (c 1420), OE. næp.] A turnip. a1500 Henr. Fab. 2362 (H).
It will not wyn ȝow worth ane widderit neip [: keip] Ib. 2395.
The cabok … Quhite as ane neip 1538 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. XVI. (Jam.).
Pulling of thair nepis 1500-1699 Herbarius Latinus Annot. xxxi (Bot.).
Brionia vild nep 1631 Buccleuch Household Bk. 25 Sept.
For … hard kell carrots neips 1643 S. Leith Rec. 45.
Who sells ather kaill carrots neips aples … or such lyk a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) 12.
Rapum, a neip 1652–3 Sc. Hist. Rev. XIII. 417.
To supper a dish of nipes cost 10 s. 1665 Lauder Jrnl. 83.
Neips 1665 Misc. Maitl. C. II. 527.
For aile and neipis in the morneing and at dinner 1677 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 130.
Young boyes … that sall be found … tacking away carrets, syboues, neips 1691 Foulis Acc. Bk. 137.
Neips 1697 Ib. 209.