Sc. ? Obs. Also 7 kimple. [Etym. obscure.] A Scotch measure of hay or straw, varying in amount (see quots.).
1629. MS. Charter (Byrehills, Fife), Et quatuor oneribus equorum straminum vulgariter nuncupatis ffour kimples of stray.
1676. Charter (of same lands), Ffoure kemples of strae.
1706. Acc. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894), 428. For 7 kemples of strae.
1805. Edin. Even. Courant, 18 July (Jam.). The Kemple of Straw must consist of forty windlens … so that the kemple must weigh fifteen stones trone.
1849. H. 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.]
