Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 4 lippe, lyppe, 6, 9 lipe, lype. [Cf. OF. lipee (F. lippée).] a. A portion, a slip. b. A pleat or fold.
a. 1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. V. 250. I … lene folke þat lese wol a lyppe at euery noble. Ibid. (1393), C. XII. 226. Me were leuere,… a lippe of godes grace, Than al þe kynde witt þat ȝe can boþe.
1851. Cumbld. Gloss., Lipe, a fragment.
1878. Cumbld. Gloss., Lipe, a large portion. Usually applied to land.
b. a. 1600. Queen’s Wardrobe, in Nichols, Progr. Q. Eliz., III. 508. One peticoate of tawney satten,… with lypes, lyned with orenge-colour sarconet.
1808–80. Jamieson, Lype, a crease, a fold.
