loupingn.
/ˈlaʊpɪŋ/ The action of loup v.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun]
leapingc1000
loupingc1440
loping1483
springing?1530
vaulting1531
saltion1541
jumping1565
exultation1599
bounding1607
exilition1646
saltation1646
salture1656
saliency1664
salitiona1682
upleaping1867
jumpery1882
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 316/1 Lowpynge or skyppynge, saltus.
1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 265 Aye houping, throwe louping, to win to libertie.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. ix. 193 Louping and laughing..would soon make the powder flee out of his wig.
Compounds
louping ague n. ‘a disease resembling St. Vitus's dance’ (Jamieson).
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1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 496 A singular kind of distemper, called the louping ague, has sometimes made its appearance in this parish.
louping ill n. ‘a disease of sheep, which causes them to spring up and down when moving forward’ (Jamieson).
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1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf ix*, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 200 The louping-ill's been sairer amang his sheep than ony season before.
1902 Dundee Advertiser 31 May Professor Hamilton..has..discovered the bacilli of loupin'-ill in sheep.
louping-on stone n. a mounting-block.
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1728 in A. Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) xxvi. 400 A petition given in by George Grant..To ye baillies and Councill..for ye liberty of building a louping on ston at the south side of the house in Newburgh he possesses.
1814 W. Scott Waverley II. vi. 113 He had..by the assistance of a ‘louping-on-stane’,..elevated his person to the back of..a broken-down blood-horse. View more context for this quotation
1902 C. G. Harper Holyhead Road I. 263 Mile~stones..resembling ‘louping on’ stones or ‘upping blocks’.
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