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- m. cudgel, club.* * *m. [Dan. kjep], a cudgel, club, Skíða R. 136, Fas. iii. 345: a nickname, Sturl.II. a sausage (= íspen, q. v.), from the shape.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.
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chip — [OE] Old English cipp meant ‘share beam of a plough’ (a sense paralleled in related forms in other Germanic languages, such as Dutch kip ‘plough beam’ and Old Norse keppr ‘stick’). This seems a far cry from the modern use of chip, for which there … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
chip — {{11}}chip (n.) O.E. cipp piece of wood, perhaps from PIE root *keipo sharp post (Cf. Du. kip small strip of wood, O.H.G. kipfa wagon pole, O.N. keppr stick, L. cippus post, stake, beam; the Germanic words perhaps borrowed from Latin). Meaning… … Etymology dictionary
chip — [OE] Old English cipp meant ‘share beam of a plough’ (a sense paralleled in related forms in other Germanic languages, such as Dutch kip ‘plough beam’ and Old Norse keppr ‘stick’). This seems a far cry from the modern use of chip, for which there … Word origins
