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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1530, 1581-1700+
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Trip(e, Tryp(e, n.1 [ME and e.m.E. trip(e (a1300), trype (c1430), OF tripe (13th c. in Hatz. & Darm.).] The entrails, bowels. Chiefly pl. b. Offal. a1500 Henr. Orph. 299.
Hert, lywir and trype [Asl. tripe, Bann. trip] He ruggit out 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 1123.
Ȝe thre my trypes sall haue, for ȝour trauell, With luffer and lowng 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Lactes, graciliora intestina, the trypes [Despauter tripes] 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 123/83.
& siclyke the trypes uell throwin Of that so gluttun brigand [sc. a wolf] breakis uith secreat force unknouin the guttis of sheip 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) ii 26.
It serves for nothing … But to be napkins at the stool. When men exonerat their tripesb. 1659 Dumfries Council Min. MS 7 Nov.
Quhatevir flesher or woman quhatsoeveir sall emptie thair trypes & uffall in the fleshmarkett shall pay [etc.] 1718 Glasgow B. Rec. IV 5.
That no … trypes be browght to the mercats uncleansed
c. comb. With -free, gutted, disembowelled. Pleugh-song in 1662 Forbes Cantus (1666).
For to deliver me, be the hide, the old ox tryp-free, he be dead
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