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† chibe Obs.
Perhaps a variant of chive n.1; but possibly representing OE. cipe ‘onion’ and (?) ‘shalot, scallion’, the normal modern repr. of which would be chipe. Cf. also Sc. ciba, sybo, ‘onion’.
[a700Erf Gl. 286 Caepa, cipae. c725Corpus Gl. 448 Cepa ynnilæc, cipe. a1100Vocab. in Wr.-Wülcker 296 Ascolonia cipe.] 1691Nicholson Gloss. Northanhymb. in Ray N.C. Words 140 A Chibe, Cepa, AS. Cipe. |