Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1722-1768, 1822-1866
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NAIP, n. Also nep-. The point or peak of the gable of a house. Combs. naip-deep, up to the gable-top; nep-house, -os, -us, a small gable carried up from the top of the front or back wall of a building and having a small roof of its own projecting from the main roof, a tympany. Also attrib.Gsw. 1722 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1909) 131:
The front of the haill buildings on the said street be all of ashler work with nephouses, all of one height, and false or true lumbheads on the top of the nephouses.Ayr. 1742 Ayr. Presb. Reg. MS. (1 Sept.) 266:
The Nepos in the back of the Brewhouse lumb wants some divots for repairing it.Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore (S.T.S.) 80:
Far in a how they spie a little shiel; Some peep o' reek out at the naip appears.Ayr. 1822 Galt Provost xxvii.:
There being then no ronns to the houses, at every other place, particularly where the nepus-gables were towards the streets, the rain came gushing in a spout.Sc. 1866 R. W. Buchanan London Poems 240:
The clachan lay Naip-deep beneath the moaning rain-dyed flood.
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