Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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KAIP, v., n. Also kip in comb. kip-stane. Variant forms of Caip, n.1, v., and caip-stane, s.v., (to) cope. The form kip may be due to confusion with Kip, n.1Sc. 1705 Foulis Acct. Bk. (S.H.S.) 392:
To Robert Boyd in compleat payment of all his counts for biging, highting, kaiping and casting dyks.Fif. 1860 H. Farnie Fife Coast 75:
It was . . . naething but his ain prudence, under God's grace, an' becoming humility, in the day o' prosperity, that led him, stap by stap, to the kip-stane o' independence.
