north. Also stoep. [? Altered from STEP v., with vowel symbolic of awkward movement.] (See quot. 1788.)
1788. W. H. Marshall, Yorksh., II. 356. To Staup; to lift the feet high, and tread heavily in walking.
a. 1857. J. Rayson, Misc. Poems (1858), 55. They stoep i’ their walking, leyke stegs amang heather.
