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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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slype
noun
a large thin piece of anything, a strip, slice:
Ye could peel the willow when the sap wes intae hit wi a slype that ye made fae a split stick.
19-
.
etymology:
Scots; attested by
Sandy Stewart in RL
; possibly the same word as
SLIPE
above