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Woup, Wip, n. Also: woupe, vo(u)p, wowp, woop(e, wolp, wyp, weyp. [e.m.E. wap (1545) a turn of string wrapped round something; whip (a1553) a sudden movement, whip(p (1583) a turning movement, whippe (1592) an overcast stitch, MLG wip(pe a quick movement, leap, skip (Quhip n. 3); Goth. wipja a crown, ON veipr a head-dress, LG wiep a twist of straw, OHG weif a bandage; one element may be var. of or influenced by Hup(e n.]

1. A bandage. 1504 Treas. Acc. II 465.
To James Dog, quhilk he laid doun for claith to be wippes to Johne Balfouris sair leg quhilk the king helit ij s. viij d. 1507 Treas. Acc. IV 15.
For iiij elne Holland clath quhilk wes wippes to the kingis arm that wes hurt

2. A ring for the finger, chiefly or only a plain band. Also attrib. b. ? A ring made up of intertwined bands of gold.(a) 1511 Treas. Acc. IV 310.
For outquitting of Wille Wodis wowp at lay in wed for tynt silvir be the king, ij Franch crounis, xxviij s. 1534 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 144.
Gudis of ayrschip … ane ring, viz. ane voup of gould 1567 Bamff Chart. 70.
Ane woup of gold, price vj l. xl d. 1569 Crail B. Ct. MS 8 Nov.
With x s. as for the price of ane woup of siluer 1596 Crim. Trials I ii 386.
Dilatit and fylit for … steling of … ane hairt of siluer owrgilt, ane woup [pr. woux], ane Camrige owrla [etc.] 1633 Johnston Diary I 31.
Thou called to mynde … hou thy uyfs woupe brak on thy finger in tuo halfs 1674 Fraser P. 257.
Ane small dymond ring, with one stone & ane woup of gold 1688 Kilspindie Session Records MSS in L. Melville Fair Land of Gowrie (1939) 131.
Some gold woupes lying as pledges 1691 Soc. Ant. LIII 54.
Two stoned ringes … with five gold woupes and ane gold lockit(b) 1561 Aberd. B. Rec. I 336.
Ane vop of gold(c) 1537 Old Dundee II 258.
Ane wip of gold, ane signet of gold with ane red stane [etc.] 1651 Montgomery Mem. 314
Fayv ringis withe dayamount … soum wtheir gold wipis(d) 1568 Edinb. Test. I 114b.
Ane wolp of gold worth fywe li.(e) 1652 Montgomery Mem. 317.
Tuo gold woopes enamled 1655 Wemyss Chart. 241.
Ane enembled black woope 1692 Wedderburn Bk. II 61.
Ane plane woopattrib. 1606 Edinb. Test. XLI 174b.
Ane braid woupe ring 1607 Edinb. Test. XLIII 256b.
Ane wowp ring closed with twa handis price iij li. 1639 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XXXII 219.
Sex dussone of woup ringis weyand four unce thrie drop tuentie four graines to be sauld at xxxvj lib. xij s. the unce 1646 Edinb. Test. LXI 252a.
Two inambled woup ringsb. 1610 Brechin Test. II 28a.
Ane ringe of gold of thrie vopis

c. An armband, also a hoop or ring of some sort, larger than a finger ring.(a) 1542 Acts & Decr. I 140b.
Ane woup of gold about his arme of ane pund weycht(b) 1561–2 Inverness Rec. I 75.
Ane weyp of gold, the wecht of half ane wnce and quartar wnce

3. A garland or head-dress made from entwined foliage, etc. 1513 Doug. xii iii 19.
Thar hedis dicht In wyppys of the haly herb vervane [L. verbena tempora vincti]

4. A hoop or band (for the shaft of a cart). 1530 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 48.
For … ii voppis to the cart lymmeris 1563–4 Prot. Bk. Thomas Johnsoun 138.
Ane tyne pynt, tua vopis [ed. ropis] of irne, ane irne ladill 1587 Carmichael Etym. 8.
Circes, a woup of iron