† galopinn.
Obsolete.
A turnspit; an errand-boy; a page.
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1567 in G. Chalmers Life Mary Q. Scots (1818) I. 177 Christell Lamb, gallepyn, in the kitching.
1578 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 252 Gallapines; apparell for them of the hall, kytchen, and pryvy kytchin.
a1610 Diet Dk. York in Archaeologia (1806) 15 7 For the Kytchen and Gallopins.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. iv. 102 So saying, he gave the little galopin his donative, and a slight rap on the pate.
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