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ˈswan-ˌupping
Also corruptly swan-hopping, q.v.
[See upping vbl. n.]
The action or practice of ‘upping’ or taking up swans and marking them with nicks on the beak in token of being owned by the crown or some corporation.
[1570in Archaeologia (1847) XXXII. 428 The Maister of the Swannes is to haue for euery white Swanne and gray vpping a penny.] 1810J. T. Smith Bk. Rainy Day (1861) 194 Swan-upping..has been changed..into Swan-hopping. 1885Pall Mall G. 2 Feb. 1/2 The ‘swan-uppings’ on the Thames of the Vintners and Dyers.
So ˈswan-ˌupper, an official who takes up and marks swans.
1557–8in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 272 The charges goynge wt the swane uppers iij dayes vj s. iiij d. 1913Standard 25 July 13 The little company of swan-uppers which annually leaves Southwark. |