Definition of Kippen

1. Noun. A piece of small firewood or kindling. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kippen

1. kep [v] - See also: kep

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kippen

kipa
kipe
kiped
kipes
kipfel
kipfels
kiping
kipp
kippa
kippage
kippages
kippah
kippahs
kippas
kipped
kippen (current term)
kippens
kipper
kipper tie
kipper ties
kippered
kippered herring
kippered salmon
kipperer
kipperers
kippering
kippernut
kippernuts
kippers
kipping

Literary usage of Kippen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Scotch Appeals in the House of Lords A. D. 1851 to 1873: With by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1895)
"And then the deed contains a clause that they are to make payment of the annual interest thereof to the said Marianne kippen, as an alimentary provision, ..."

2. The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the by John Sinclair (1796)
"PARISH OF kippen. (COUNTIES or PERTH AND STIRLING.) By the Rev. Mr JOHN CAMPBELL. Name. * I 'HOUGH many names of places in this country are un- ..."

3. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1856)
"In December 1850, his daughter Margaret being about to be married to" Mr Edmiston of Bossfield, Mr kippen bound himself, his heirs and executors, ..."

4. Autobiographical Notes of the Life of William Bell Scott ... and Notices of by William Bell Scott, William Minto (1892)
"CHAPTER VI THE MANSE OF kippen—BROTHER ROBERT I MUST go back a few years to my first and second visits to the manse of kippen before I leave my boyhood ..."

5. General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of by John Sinclair (1814)
"I—Moss of kippen. * IT is said, that Mr James Ure of ... in the parish of kippen, near Stirling, was the first person who conceived the idea of using a ..."

6. The Popular Rhymes of Scotland: With Illustrations by Robert Chambers (1826)
"OUT OT THE WORLD AND INTO kippen. A proverb meant to show the seclusion and singularity of this district of Stirlingshire, of which the feudal lord was ..."

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