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† ˈlope-staff Obs.
Also 7 loape-. Pl. lope-staves.
[f. lope v. + staff.]
A pole used for leaping dykes, etc. in the Fens and Low Countries.
1603Drayton Bar. Wars i. xliii, Such as in fens and marsh-lands us'd to trade, The doubtful fords and passages to try, With stilts and lope-staves that do aptliest wade. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Bout, Baston a deux bouts, a quarter⁓staffe; or, a Lope-staffe, wherewith Low-countrey men leape ditches. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. i. 27 Tis usuall for the Bores of Holland, some with firelocks, and some with Loapestaves, to make out parties of foot to goe a-bootehaling. 1654E. Johnson Wond. workg. Provid. 20 The Ditch..was so wide, that they could not leap over with a lope-staffe. |