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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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*Hope, Houp, n.⁵ [Cf. Hope n.² and ON. hóp a landlocked bay.] A small bay or haven. Only in place-names, as St. Margaret's Hope, Kirkhope, etc. — c1420 Wynt. vi. 2499.
[Edgar Atheling and St. Margaret arrived] in Saynt Margretys Hope [in Fife] (= Fordun, sinus sanctæ Margaretæ] 16.. Ouchterlony in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 43.
A sure and saif road for any ships in a storm called Lovnan houp a1688 Wallace Orkney 8, 10 (Jam.).
St. Margaret's Hope, Kirk-hope [etc., in Orkney]