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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1513, 1590-1676
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Chap, n.1 Also: chapp, chape, chept; shap. [Later form of Chop n. Cf. Chap v.] A blow or knock; a stroke of a clock or bell.(1) 1513 Doug. v. x. 61.
Epytides … Smait with a chap, and cryis, go togidder! c1590 J. Stewart 39/331.
No chap nor chak mycht mak him lift his heed 1651 Hutton Session Bk. in Berw. Nat. C. VII 230.
Confessed she did not knock it [corn], but gave it two shaps 1676 Brodie Diary. 351.
We ar as an earthen vessel, … the least chapp dashes and breaks us(2) 1594 Perth Kirk S. 271.
Sundry … in the forenoon rise up at the chap of eleven hours, and depart away without the blessing 1597 Elgin Rec. II. 60.
Sic personis as beis not found in the kirk at the third chept of the third bell sall be comptit as absents 1641 Rec. Old Aberd. II. 16.
The said prayers to begin at the heindmest chape of the bell
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