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Threp(e, Threip, n. Also: threype, threap, threep. [ME and e.m.E. þrepe, threp(e (all Cursor M.); Threpe v.] Argument, dissension; strife, conflict. Also, to mak threip, to fall in threip with (someone).For threip and thrang, see Thrang n. 1 (a). a1400 Leg. S. xxxi 174.
The abbot thane, to scheld the threpe, In-to the fyre but mare can lepe 1535 Stewart 1243.
We sall mak threip ȝit or we [ar] ouirthrawin 1535 Stewart 57476.
Syne wilfullie he fell with him in threip

b. An instance of argument or dissension; ? a complaint. 1675 Sel. Biog. II 214.
Let us see what is to be done, and hear patiently all assertions and threaps

c. Debate, discussion. 1686 Reg. Privy C. XII 267.
The oversman to be chosen by threp [sc. for perambulation of marches]

d. Of lands: To be in threype, to have their ownership contested, to be disputed. Also attrib. in threpe landez, lands so disputed. 1524 St. P. Henry VIII IV 114.
Landis that is in threype betuext Ingland and Scotlandattrib. 1449 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXX 113.
The landez called batable landez or threpe landez in the west marchez

e. comb. With topograpical terms and as a place-name element. c1200 Reg. Dunferm. 96.
Terra que dicitur Threpland 1259 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 26.
Compositio super terra de Threpland 1296 Ragman's Roll (Peebleshire).
Robert de Threpeland [near Biggar] 1383 Reg. Great S. 277/2.
Cum … terris que dicuntur Halfkyttoksyde, … Hafthrepland 1425 Liber Melros 545.
Fra the Chyldwell aboun passand wp to the myddys of the Threpleche to the standand stan 1463 Newburgh B. Ct. 11a.
Gyf it wes spedful to put the threpfelde to the common profyt of the toin 1509–10 Rentale Dunkeld. (SHS) 105.
Threipland 1568 Campbell Love-Lett. Mary 15.
The contraversy yerely arising by occasion of certain grounds upon the frontiers in the East Marches, commonly called the Threap-land, or Debatable 1659 A. Hay Diary 39.
I cam doun be the threip wood c1680 Cunningham Diary 132.
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