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▪ I. staup, n. north.|stɔːp|
[f. staup v.]
(See quot. 1825.)
1825Jamieson Suppl., Staup 1. A long awkward step, Roxb. 2. A tall awkward person; as ‘Haud aff me, ye muckle lang staup’, ibid. 1897E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches xvii. 185, I was..Never a happer-hippit staup of a thing like yourself.
▪ II. staup, v. north.|stɔːp|
Also stoep.
[? Altered from step v., with vowel symbolic of awkward movement.]
(See quot. 1788.)
1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 356 To Staup; to lift the feet high, and tread heavily in walking. a1857J. Rayson Misc. Poems (1858) 55 They stoep i' their walking, leyke stegs amang heather.
▪ III. staup
variant of stap n. stave of a cask. |