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† gripe's egg Obs.
Forms: 4 grypesheye, 5 gripesei, -ey(e, gryppeshey; 5 gryp ey, 5, 6 gripes egg(e.
[gripe n.3]
A large egg (? an ostrich's) supposed to be that of a ‘gripe’; a vessel shaped like this; an oval-shaped cup.
[1390Gower Conf. I. 127 (Fairfax MS.) The Cuppe..was policed ek so clene That no signe of the Skulle was sene, But as it were a Gripes Ey.] 1391Will of Horbury (Somerset Ho.), Ciphum vocat[um] Grypesheye. 1419in Test. Ebor. I. 393 Alius ciphus vocatus a gryp ey. 1491Will of Vaughan (Somerset Ho.), A gripes egg harnased with siluer. 1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. iii, Let the water in Glasse E. be feltred, And put into the Gripes egge. |