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hipple Obs. exc. dial.|ˈhɪp(ə)l| Forms: 4 huple, hypil, hipil, -yll, heepil, 5 heple, hupple, 9 dial. hipple. [dim. of heap:—OE. type *híepel, *hýpel: cf. Ger. häufel, MHG. hiufel.] A little heap. † hipyllmelum = *hipplemeal, in heaps, by heaps: see -meal.
1382Wyclif 2 Chron. xxxi. 9 Why the heepils schulden so lyen. ― Isa. xvii. 1 Damasch shal..be as an hypil [1388 heep] of stones. ― Wisd. xviii. 23 Whan forsothe now hipyllmelum thei hadden fallen dead, either vp on other.1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxxii. (Tollem. MS.) [Hay is] gadered and made of heples into cockes. 1480Caxton Descr. Brit. i. xxii. (1527) 19 b, Hepes and hupples of stones and of grauell. 1788W. Marshall Yorksh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Hipples, cocklets, or small bundles of hay set up to dry. |