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† ˈgispin Obs.
Forms: 6 guispin, gyspen, 7 gespen, gespin, gispin.
[Of obscure origin: Godefr. quotes a 14th c. Fr. document which mentions ‘quatre guippons d' yaue benoite’, but he interprets the word as = goupillon, asperser.]
A leathern pot or cup.
1530Palsgr. 225/1 Gyspen potte, pot de cvir. 1550in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) II. ii. xxxiii. 538 A pair of pinsons, a little pot, and a guispin. 1636D. Lloyd Leg. Capt. Jones (1648) 2 Then up starts Jones, Calls for sixe Gispins, drinkes them off at once. 1641S. Smith Herring Buss Trade 23 Throwne into the barrels with panniers or gespen. c1660–80Househ. Ord. (1790) 374 A pott and a gespin..for ale and wyne for the said watch. |