kipe.
An osier basket used for catching fish.
Meaning & usage
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”).
To steal.
Where this word comes from
Perhaps from dialectal kip (“to snatch”).
Alternative spelling of kype (“upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”).
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