Lexicographical Neighbors of Caups
Literary usage of Caups
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"YILL-caups—Cups to drink ... those girls with large eyes, are said to have " e'en
like yill-caups," ..."
2. Biggar and the house of Fleming by William Hunter (1862)
"On market days, it appears, there were exposed for sale, shoes, smith work, pewter
dishes, spinning wheels, chests, ploughs, harrows, caups, sieves, ..."
3. Transactions by Stirling Natural History and Archaeological Society, American philosophical society (1905)
"Near by was the plate rack, which wae filled with wooden caups and platters before
the general use of earthen ware. The Institute has a good collection' of ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... the crashing of the caups ae they were crushed in the mills, the groaning and
squealing of the machinery, the spanking of whips, the lumbering and ..."
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