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▪ I. paip, pape Sc.|peːp|
Also pep (Jam.).
[var. of pip.]
The stone of a cherry, sloe, plum, or other stone fruit; an orange pip, etc. the paips, a game played by schoolboys with cherry-stones.
1721Kelly Sc. Prov. 2 A Head full of Hair, a Kirkle full of Hips, and a Briest full of Papes, are three sure Marks of a Daw. 1808–25Jamieson, Paip, a cherry-stone... Three of these stones are placed together, and another above them. These are called a castle. The player takes aim with a cherry-stone, and when he overturns this castle, he claims the spoil. [But in some districts the missile is a large flat metal button, a bit of slate, or a marble.] 1821Blackw. Mag. IX. 401 note, Papes are cherry-stones, which are collected with care by the boys, and furnish them with numberless sources of amusement. 1885R. Christison Autobiog. I. ii. 33 Cherry trees in my young days were robbed as much for the papes as for the cherries.
▪ II. paip, paiply
Sc. ff. pope, popely. |