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doup Sc.|daʊp|
Forms: 6 dolp, 6–9 doup, 7 doupe, 7–9 dowp.
[Of Norse origin: cf. ON. daup.]
†1. A rounded cavity or hollow bottom. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis iii. x. 15 Off his E dolp the flowand blude and attir He wische away. 1641Fergusson Scot. Prov. 7 (Jam.) Better half egg than toom dowp. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. vi, Castor and Pollux [born] of the doupe of that Egge which was laid..by Leda.
2. The posterior extremity of the body, the fundament or seat.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxii, At the salt doup [Fr. au cul sallé, the name of a game]. 1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. xxii, A' the skaith that chanc'd indeed, Was only on their dowps. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 257 Sax and therty lashes a piece on the bare doup.
3. The bottom or end (of any thing), e.g. the rounded end of a candle.
1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk Gr. iii. x, I' the doup o' day. 1774T. Scott Poems 319 (Jam.), At the doup o' e'en. 1816Scott Antiq. v, The doup o' a candle. 1894Crockett Lilac Sunb. 72 What remained of the smooth candle ‘dowp’.
b. A loop at the end.
1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 285 The half leaf..passes through the upper doup of the standard. |