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kipe.

An osier basket used for catching fish.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkaɪp/
  1. An osier basket used for catching fish.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English kipe, kype, from Old English cȳpe, cȳpa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kipǭ, *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”). Akin to Middle Low German kīpe ("basket"; > German Low German Kiep, Kiepke (“basket”), German Kiepe (“carrying basket”)), Norwegian kaup (“wooden box; crate”).

verb/ˈkaɪp/
  1. To steal.

    slang
Where this word comes from

Perhaps from dialectal kip (“to snatch”).

noun/ˈkaɪp/
  1. Alternative spelling of kype (“upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”).

    alt-of · alternative
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