Sc. [Corruptly a. F. équipage EQUIPAGE.]
† 1. ‘The company sailing on board a ship, whether passengers or mariners’ (Jam.). Cf. EQUIPAGE 13.
1578. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1814), III. 104. Considder diligentlie how mekill flesche may serve euerie schip and thair kippage for that present veyage.
2. ‘Disorder, confusion’ (Jam.); a state of excitement or irritation.
Cf. such F. phrases as mettre en piteux équipage to wreck or destroy (Littré).
1814. Scott, Wav., liii. The Colonel’s in an unco kippage. Ibid. (1818), Br. Lamm., xxvi. Dinna pit yoursell into a kippage.
1825–80. Jamieson, s.v., One is said to be in a sad kippage, when reduced to a disagreeable dilemma, Loth.
