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Tup, Twp(e, n. Also: tupe, tuip(e, toop(e, tupp, tip, top. Pl. also tippes, -is, twpps. [ME (chiefly north.) and e.m.E. toupe (14th c.), tup(e (a1400-50), tip (1570). Cf. Norw. and Sw. tupp.] A ram. Also attrib. and comb.(a) 1423–4 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii 87.
Twpis 1482–3 Acta Conc. II cxxiii.
xx^ti yowis, price of the pece v s., twa tupis, price of the pece v s. 1507 Exch. R. XII 560.
Octo le tupis et wetheris 1529 Yester Wr. 139.
5 score ȝowis and tupis 1547 Misc. Spald. C. V 312.
Tuppis 1569 Edinb. Test. I 302a.
Twpe 1574 Buccleuch Mun. II 455.
Tuentie scoir tua dynmonthis and tupes 1674 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 7 Oct.
Ratifies all former acts anent killing of twpps and yewis 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) i 76.
The squire … running backward like a tupp, For to return with greater force(b) 1582 Edinb. Test. XI 63a.
Sex ȝowis & ane tuipe(c) 1638 Fugitive Poetry II x 4/9.
It grew a long-horn'd Galloway ramme … This is the Twaddel toope that was the type And figure of that fortune long foretold 1663 Edinb. Test. LXXI 173a.
Sex wadders and ane toop worth xvj lib. xv s. 1698 Edinb. Test. LXXX 312b.
Threttie four scor of eues and toops at l lb. the scor ourhead(d) 1643 Dumfries Test. I 130b.
Some old sheip wotheris and tippes at xl s. the peace 1647 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. II 805.
Tippis 1671 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct.) 11 Feb.
He leaves to his servant Elizabeth Corsbie, two sheip, viz. a tip and ew(e) 1689 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 6 May.
Fourteine ewes and lambes and nyne hogs one old top and watherattrib. 1659 Melrose Reg. Rec. I 242.
Ane toope hog — 1598 Edinb. Test. XXXI 385a.
He leuis … to Jonet Gemmill his oy ane kow & ane tuip scheipe 1614 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. II 156.
Ane tip scheip of four ȝeir auld 1680 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 5 Nov.
Fowre ewes and three lambs and a toop sheip — a1689 Cleland 12.
A tupe-horn filled with usquebaycomb. 1688 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII 301.
[Summons at the instance of … Neil M^cLauchlane, drover, … and Dugall M^cFarlane, drover, his] topmaster and trustie