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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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loup
,
lowp
verb
to jump, spring, dash:
Loup a laich dyke.
[Jump over a low wall.]
16-
.
etymology:
Scots; Middle English
lope
, Old Norse
hlaupa v
hlaup n
‘leap’; attested by
SR
,
JS
and
BW