Forpet

A forpet, lippie or lippy was a Scottish unit of dry measure equal to a quarter or fourth-part of a peck. A lippie was so called because a leap was a traditional name for a basket.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Charles Jones (1997), The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language, p. 422, ISBN 0748607544
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