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Quotation dates: 1542-1626, 1699
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S(c)hip-pund, n. Also: schipe-, schepe- and -pound(e. [e.m.E. shyp pounde, (1545), MLG schippunt, MDu. schippond.] A unit of weight used in the Baltic trade, varying from 300 to 400 pounds; = 20 lispunds (Lispund n.). Usu. written as two words.In pl., usu. without inflection.(a) 1542 Treasurer's Accounts VIII 152.
Ane brokyn falcoun weyand in the haill twenty sevin schip pound and aucht lesche pound 1557–8 Old Dundee II 325.
Four shippund and ane half and five leichepund of halie flax lint 1560 Stirling B. Rec. I 75.
For half schip pund irn 1573 Edinburgh Testaments II 338b.
Ane schip pund of hemp contenand xvj stane c1575 Balfour Pract. 88.
Aucht leshpund makis ane hundreth pund. … twentie markis makis ane leshpund. … twentie leshpundis is a schip-pund 1582 Dundee Shipping L. 207.
Hes schip cum from Danskene contenand … four schip pund gad iron 1595 Edinburgh Testaments XXVIII 297.
Tua schip pund cabill ȝairne estimat to the sowme of liiij li. 1596 Ib. XXIX 267b.
Ten schip pundis of Danskene irne extending to aucht scoir ten stane 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Serplath.
For ane last of walx that is fured hame be strangers, fourteene schip pounde. And be Scottish skippers, twelue schip pound 1610 Edinburgh Testaments XLVI 120b.
Tuentie schip pund of oismond irne … xiiij schip pund of lang irne 1611 Brechin Testaments III 152b.
He haid schippit in Stokhollame … threittein schip pund of gald irone ilk schip pund extending to xvj staine & ane halff 1616 Dundee Shipping L. 274.
To William Alexander halff ship pund kettill 1622-6 Bisset II 208/35. 1699 Smout Sc. Trade 292.
21 and 22 dollars per shippound(b) 1589–1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 77b.
Ane wther pype of the doubell keyes weis ii schepe pound ane half vii lesche pound ane half 1589–1600 Ib.
Ane schepe pound ane lesche [pound] lent at xiiii doleris ane half the schepe pound is xv doleris(c) 1625 Edinburgh Testaments LIII 183.
Tua schipe pund of wax at ijcviij li. the schipe pund
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