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▪ I. shep Obs. exc. dial.|ʃɛp|
Also 4–5 schep, chep.
[Short for shepherd.
It is commonly supposed that this word occurs in the second line of Piers Plowman, ‘I shope me into shroudes as I a sheep were’. The author's meaning, however, seems to be that the assumption of a hermit's dress by one who was ‘unholy of works’ was a disguising of himself ‘in sheep's clothing’. The sense ‘shepherd’ seems to be irrelevant; moreover, even if it be intended here, the word with the long vowel indicated by the MS. readings cannot well be of identical formation with the shep of the examples below.]
A shepherd.
c1381Slaughter Abp. Sudbury in Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 230 Jak Chep [v.r. Schep], Tronche, Jon Wrau, Thom Myllere..Isti ductores in plebe fuere priores. 14..Lydg. Chorl & Bird xlviii. in Ashmole Theatr. Chem. Brit. (1652) 223 A Chepys Croke to the ys better than a Launce. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Shep, a shepherd. ‘Cook was shep to Mr. Sorsby then, but he's left now’. 1899H. D. Rawnsley Life & Nat. Engl. Lakes 171 Waiting for the late arrival of this or that ‘shep’, with his contribution of strayed sheep from the fold.
▪ II. shep
obs. form of sheep, ship. |