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▪ I. stoup|stuːp|
Forms: α. (chiefly Sc. and north.) 4–6 stowpe, 6–9 stowp, 6 stolp, 6–7, 9 stoupe, 6– stoup; β. 6–7 stoope, 7–9 stoop; γ. (4 Latin stopa), 5–8 stope, 6–7 stoap(e; δ. Sc. 6 stoip, 7 stoype.
[a. ON. staup neut. (Norw. staup, Sw. stop) = OE. stéap masc., MDu. stoop masc. (Du. stoop masc. and fem.), MLG. stôp masc., OHG., MHG. stouf (mod.G. dial. stauf masc.):—OTeut. *staupo-. Cf. stop n.1
Prob. some of the forms are due to the influence of the MDu. or MLG. equivalent: see note to sense 2.]
1. A pail or bucket; also water-stoup. Now only Sc. † Formerly also, a large jar or small cask for holding liquids. (Cf. stop n.1 1.)
α1397in Finchale Priory Charters etc. (Surtees) p. cxvii, Item iiij stowpes de coreo. 1574in Richmond Wills (Surtees) 247 In the brewe house..vij. seaes, ij skiles, ij. stoupes. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Bannatyne Club) I. 44 It is said that their sister, with ane trein stoup, slew ane called Mercer..Dumbar. 1708Invent. in E. D. Dunbar Soc. Life Former Days (1865) 212 A laddle, a watter stoup, three cies. 1822Galt Provost xxxiii, Even lasses were fleeing to and fro, like water nymphs with urns, having stoups and pails in their hands. 1912R. M. Ferguson Ochil Fairy Tales 13 Two wooden stoups or pitchers full of water.
β1634Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 53 Here along this passage are thirty-six stoopes placed at equal distances.
γ [1390Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 9 Pro j stopa et di. mellis. Ibid. 14 Pro vijxx viij stopis vini Rochell.] 1411in Finchale Priory Charters etc. (Surtees) p. clvi, Item vj tankards et j stope de corio. 1427–8Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 142 In iij. ollis nuncupatis Stopez. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 728/28 Hec cupa, a stope. 1554Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. X. 234 Item, for platis, dischis, bukatis, and stopis, xv s. 1595Duncan App. Etym. (E.D.S.), Amphora, a stope.
2. A drinking-vessel, of varying dimensions; a cup, flagon, tankard. Also as a measure of definite quantity; often with defining word, as gill stoup, pint stoup, quart stoup. Now Sc. and north., and as a literary archaism. (Cf. stop n.1 3.)
In some of the quots. used to represent a foreign form, e.g. Du. stoop, Sw. stop.
α1500–20Dunbar Poems xl. 26 Off wyne owt of ane choppyne stowp, They drank twa quartis, sowp and sowp. 1533Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VI. 179 For mending of ane of the Kingis silver stolpis..viij s. 1543–4Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1871) II. 115 Stowppis of mesour. 1573Sc. Acts Jas. VI, c. 57 (1597) 27 Everie Barrell of herring and quhit-fisch, [sall] conteine nine gallones of the samin stope. 1586Extracts Burgh Rec. Edin. (1882) IV. 475 All persouns quha hes any fals stowpes clowrit in the sydes. 1610Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady ii. ii, Lets haue a bridling cast before you goe. Fils a new stoupe. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 286 Each Student in the Vniversitie hath eighty measures of wine (vulgarly called Stoup) allowed him free from imposition. 1638Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 315/1 To mark and stamp all firlottis..quart-stoupis, pynt, chopein and mutchekin stoupis. 1721,1786[see mutchkin b]. 1754E. Burt Lett. N. Scot. (1818) I. 157 Their capacious pint pot which they call a stoup. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Stoup,..a vessel containing a size or half a pint, is so called at Cambridge. 1814Scott Wav. xvi, The Baron ordered a stoup of usquebaugh. 1879‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine 7 Scarce stopping for a stoup of wine. 1895J. C. Snaith Mistr. Dorothy Marvin xxvii, A big stoup o' cider.
β1589Hakluyt Voy. 824 Also they shal sell wines by the pype, and by the gallon, quart, or Stoope they shall not sell [in Russia]. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. ii. iii. 14 Marian I say, a stoope of wine. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 62 For each measure of wine..I paid ten grosh, which measure is called a stoope, and is somewhat bigger then the English quart. 1708W. King Art of Cookery 85 A cauldron of fat beef, and stoop of ale. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. ii. xi. 51 Liquors are sold by the stoop, of which three are equal to an English gallon. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 3 Sept., This is brought in a pewter stoop, shaped like a skittle. 1864D. G. Mitchell Wet Days 131 The monks might send him now and then a stoop of their wine. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. xxix, Parson took a stoop of cider.
γ1452Paston Lett. Suppl. (1901) 44 Ye shul have a stope of bere to comforte yow. c1483Caxton Dialogues 7 Cannes de deux lots, Cannes of two stope,..Lotz et demy lotz, Stopes and half stopes. 1502Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 295 Ane tyn quart and ane poynt stopes. 1533Ibid. VI. 165 For iij quart stopis, xviij d. 1591[? Nashe] Prognostication B 3, Englishe Beere shall there [in Denmark] be woorth fiue pence a stoape. 1592Greene Black Bks. Messenger Ep. Rdr., He would steale ouer in to the Lowe Countries, there to tast three or foure Stoapes of Rhenish wine. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 278 Set me the Stopes of wine vpon that Table. 1609Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. Proem. 4 The Switzers stoap of Rhenish. 1657in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. i. 38 Tow silver stoapes. 1673Dryden Amboyna v. i, [Dutchman loq.] Boy, give me some Tobacco, and a stope of Wine. 1713Phil. Trans. XXIX. 57, 30 Rotterdam Stopes (making each about 3 English Quarts).
δ1530in A. Laing Abbey of Lindores (1876) 490 It. iiij half gallonis stoippis, xj qrt stoippis iiij poynt stoppis. a1550Freiris of Berwick 66 in Maitland Poems (1786) 67 Dame, fill ane stoip of aile. 1663Invent. Ld. J. Gordon's Furniture, Twa quart stoypes.
3. A vessel to contain holy-water, usu. a stone basin set in or against the wall of the church-porch, or within the church close to the entrance-door.
The form stoup is modern. It represents the earlier stop, stope: see γ below and stop n.1 2; cf. stock n.1 21.
α1793Denne in Archæologia XI. 131 The holy-water stoup, fixed near the doors of churches, is sometimes called labrum. Ibid. 150, 365 note. 1829Bloxam Princ. Gothic Archit. xi. 65. 1848 Lytton Harold iv. vi, Near the doorway..was the stoupe or aspersorium for holy-water. 1899Q. Rev. Apr. 470 The famous alliance between the stoup and the sabre, which has reorganised the politics of France.
β1784Denne in J. Thorpe Custumale Roffense (1788) 99 These basins or stoops were sometimes made of metal, but generally of stone.
γ1500Invent. Ch. Goods Canterb. in Gentl. Mag. (1837) Dec. 569/2 A stope, off lede, for the holy watr atte the churche dore.
†4. attrib., as stoop-can, stoup-glass. Obs.
1608H. Clapham Errour Right Hand 53 See you that cherry-cheeked Damsell that tooke vp there the Stoop-kan. 1626Bacon Sylva §796 Take a Stock-Gilly-Flower, and tye it gently vpon a Sticke, and put them both into a Stoope Glasse.
▪ II. stoup
obs. form of stoop, stupe. |