Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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†HAP, Happ, n.5 An implement used to scrape up ooze from the sea-bed to make salt (Dmf. 1825 Jam., hap). Also known in Cum. dial.Dmf. c.1700 Trans. Dmf. & Gall. Antiq. Soc. (1901) 56:
They take a sled with a broad board fixed to the hinder part thereof the edge downward upon the ground, which they call the happ, and with this drawn by an horse they gather the ranges together into an heap.Dmf. 1812 W. Singer Agric. Dmf. 527:
His first care is to collect the sleech proper for his purpose; this he effects by means of an implement named a hap, a kind of sledge-drag, furnished with a sharp edge at that part which touches the ground, and drawn by a single horse.
