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† tirˈpeil Obs.
Forms: 4 tirpell, -peile, tyrpeyl, -payl, turpel, 5 -pell, -pele.
[Metathetic form of OF. trepeil uproar, trouble (12th c. in Godef.); according to Diez from OF. trepeiller to run hither and thither, f. treper to hop, trip, of German origin: cf. MLG. trippen to tread; also mod.F. trépigner to stamp.]
A broil, encounter, tumult.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1665 Þe Troiens þat had ben yn turpel [v.r. tirpell], At midnight tok þey conseil. Ibid. 15422 Þey [Britons] gadered þem to consail How to venge þat tyrpayl. c1330― Chron. (1810) 216 With⁓outen his conseile, or þe kynges wittyng, To maynten þer tirpeile he suore ageyn þe kyng. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 8841 But not-for-thi so it be-fell, That he was hurt at that turpell. Ibid. 18020 Foure hundrid of damyseles That lyued afftir that turpeles. |