Lexicographical Neighbors of Kilps
Literary usage of Kilps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"Kelps [kelps-, kilps-], sb. pi. chimney pothooks, of iron ; gen., Wh. (//., which
notes: "When the pot is taken from the. hooks over the fire, ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1873)
"Kelk [kelk'], the roe of female fish. Wh. GL; Mid. Kelk [kcl-k], a blow. Wh.
Gl.; gen. Kelps [kelps-, kilps-], sb. pi. chimney pothooks, of iron ; gen., ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Pertaining to the Dialect of Mid-Yorshire: With Others by C. Clough Robinson (1876)
"Wh.Ol.; gen. Kelk [kelk-], the roe of female fish. Wh. Ol. ; Mid. Kelk [kel-k],
a blow. Wh. Gl. ; gen. Kelps [kelps', kilps-], sb. pi. chimney ..."
4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"kilps, n. (1) crooked places, knots. ... o' kilps in it" = It has a great many
crooks or crooked places places. (2) Pot-hooks. Km, n, a chap, a chilblain. ..."
5. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"Of Gally-bawk, Reckons, or kilps, I know nothing farther. Ray speaks of the m as
if they were familiar things to him. Jamei- son has no such words—nor Crock ..."
6. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1889)
"kilps. — A loose, disorderly, or otherwise ... more often used in relation to
women than men _ What a kilps it is, fit for noht at all, ..."
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