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LIPE, n.¹, v. Also lype, leip; ¶lipp. [ləip]

I. n. 1. A crease or fold (Sc. 1825 Jam., lype).

2. In Mining: a small intrusion or irregularity in the joints of a coal-seam, the joints being usually glazed (Sc. 1886 J. Barrowman Mining Terms 42; Fif., Ayr. 1961). Hence lipey, of a coal seam: intersected by small hitches or irregular and glazed joints (Id.).Fif. 1741 Atholl MSS. (Blairingon Coal):
The Coalhewers came upon a bodie of Lippy Coals, 20 or 24 fathoms broad, And in Length the whole breadth of the Coall work from Crop to Dipp … which body of Lipps was not worth the working.Fif. 1835 Trans. Highl. Soc. 428:
Lipes or “Glazed Backs” (A “glazed back”, is known geologically as a flexure, often occurring in association with faults).Sc. 1857 J. B. Jukes Manual Geol. 106:
When lumpy, they [shale] are called “lipey blaes”.Ayr. 1912 G. Cunningham Verse 70:
'Boot up steps and doon steps, and veezes and lypes.Fif. 1952 B. Holman Behind the Diamond Panes 82:
All the care in roof support did not prevent a “fall” because of a “greasy lipe”.

3. The upturned edge, lip or flange of a peat-spade (Rxb. a.1838 Jam. MSS. XI. 108, 1923 Watson W.-B.). Hence lypit spade, a peat-spade (Ib.).Sc. 1863 Border Mag. (Sept.) 185:
To him I leave twa ruckles o' turves, twa winraws o' Rab's-bog peatis, and the lyppit-spade, and the flauchter-spade for castin' the same.

II. v. In ppl.adj. lypit, creased, folded (Abd. 1825 Jam.); cut with a lipit spade, oblong, of peats (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.).