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ˈkemple Sc. ? Obs.
Also 7 kimple.
[Etym. obscure.]
A Scotch measure of hay or straw, varying in amount (see quots.).
1629MS. Charter (Byrehills, Fife), Et quatuor oneribus equorum straminum vulgariter nuncupatis ffour kimples of stray. 1676Charter (of same lands), Ffoure kemples of strae. 1706Acc. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 428 For 7 kemples of strae. 1805Edin. Even. Courant 18 July (Jam.), The Kemple of straw must consist of forty windlens..so that the kemple must weigh fifteen stones trone. 1849H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 347 The straw will weigh 9 kemples of 440 lbs. each [In Morton's Cycl. Agric. (1863) given as = 358 lbs. trone.] |