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▪ I. chep dial.|tʃɛp| [prob. a. ONF. chep, in central F. cep, ‘partie qui porte le soc de la charrue’ Littré:—L. cipp-us stump of tree, stock, stake, beam; whence also OE. cyp(p: see chip. (It is less likely that chep is a variant of the latter.)] A piece of timber forming the sole of a turn-wrest plough; ‘the piece of wood on which the share is fixed’. Boys (1796) loc. cit.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 247 Having also near the chep of the Plough a small fin to cut the roots of the grass. 1796J. Boys Agric. of Kent (1813) 51. 1807 R. W. Dickson Agric. I. 9 The foot is tenoned to the end of the beam, and mortised at the bottom to the end of the chep. The chep, to which the share is fixed, is 5 feet long, 4 inches wide, 5 inches deep. Hence † cheped a., having a chep.
1796Boys Agric. Kent (1813) 75 Furrows made with a two or three-cheped plough. ▪ II. † chep Obs. See chefe. |