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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1596
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Chepe, Cheip, v. [e.m.E. cheepe (1570), cheape, of imitative origin.] tr. To chirp; to utter a feeble sound; fig. to murmur. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxii. 55.
The lamb than cheipit [M. chepit] lyk a mows 1513 Doug. xii. viii. 76.
The swallow … Gadderand the small morcellis … To bair hir byrdis chepand in thar nest 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 698.
We sall gar cheknis cheip and geaslyngis pew 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 39/25.
The garruling of the stirlene gart the sparrou cheip a1568 Fleming Bannatyne MS 160 b/50.
Becaus thair wyfis hes maistery That thay dar nawayis ch eip 1596 Dalr. II. 467/6.
Hitherto was nathing fund that contrar ance tha could cheip
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