![]() 1761 Magopico (1810) 12: He imagined at that instant his caput transmogriphied into an egg-shell, and all his members made of pipe-stopples. 316: Encrinites have been found, which the workmen designate by the familiar name of “pipe shanks”. Rae Clyde and Tweed 56: And Eleck soucht for lang in ilka pooch, But ne'er an aixtrae pipe-shank met his han'. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) iii.: I thocht he'd swallowed his pipe-shank, he gae sik a habble. 24: Yon lang, thin, shilpit, pipe-shankit, white-chaff't, drink-o'-soor-milk-an'-cauld-gruel. Watt Poems 236: Ringan, in the twa-arm'd chair, His pipe-shank clears, for suction. Ford Tayside Songs 108: Lunt yer pipe-reek up the lum. Hunter Life Studies 247: Gettin' a glint o' a neighbour's face lookin' out amang pipe reek. 316: The corallines they call “pipe heads”. (Sept.) 276: His pop or pipe-gun, formed of last year's growth of the branch of a plane-tree. Brander (19 July) State of Process 120: As much newly cut pipe-grass as would fill the box of a cart. (March) 459: But for borrowed beauty oot o' a bottle, I wadna gie ye a pipey dottle! (3) Mry. (March) 301: A pickin' o the seeds o' the pipe bent is a feast to her. (1) (10) to pit oot ( another's) pipe, to non-plus or thwart someone, “squash,”, snub, to “put one's gas in a peep”. 1825 Jam.), “its stiff stalks are used to clean pipes” (Sc. (iii) the crested dogstail grass or windle-strae, Cynosurus cristatus (Lth. 1965) to rain auld wives an pipe-stapples, to rain “cats and dogs” (s.Sc. 1923 Watson W.-B.), hence pipe-stopplit, adj., of legs: extremely thin (Rxb. as plain as a pipe-stopple, perfectly clear and evident, “as plain as a pike-staff” Also attrib. 1825 Jam.), as something of very little value or as something very simple or uncomplicated. Used as the type of anything very fragile or thin (Rxb. Lutton Montiaghisms 31), (i) = (8) (i) (Lth., Rxb. See also Shank (9) pipe-stap(p)le, -stopple, -stoople (Uls. 1965) (ii) a type of fossil, an encrinite. Hence pipe-shankit, of persons or animals: having long, thin legs (Uls. 1 (8) pipe-shank, (i) the stem of a tobacco-pipe (Abd. See Reek (7) pipe-riper, a pipe-cleaner (Sh., Abd., m.Sc. = (1) ¶(4) pipe-gun, a pop-gun (5) pipe-head, a fossil of the coral order, a coralline. and deriv.: (1) pipe-bent, a species of bent-grass, Agrostis (2) pipe(y)-dottle, the plug of unconsumed tobacco and ash in a half-smoked pipe Gen.Sc. Includes material from the 19 supplements. Show Show Browse Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)įirst published 1968 (SND Vol.
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