kipe

An osier basket used for catching fish.

Noun fishing, hobbies

  1. An osier basket used for catching fish.
    • The completed kipe looks like a crinoline made for a giantess; from the slender waist the skirts swell to a diameter of eight feet at the hem. The kipe is only the mouth to the fisherman's elaborate trap and is fixed so...

Origin

From Middle English kipe, kype, from Old English cȳpe, cȳpa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kipǭ, *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”). Akin to Middle Low German kīpe ("basket"; > German Low German Kiep, Kiepke (“basket”), German Kiepe (“carrying basket”)), Norwegian kaup (“wooden box; crate”).

Forms

kipes kype

Noun alt of, alternative

  1. Alternative spelling of kype (“upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”).

Forms

kipes

Verb

  1. To steal.
    • Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe and give to his father to jazz up his ’fifty-six Ford Vicky ragtop. - 1987 [1984], James Ellroy, chapter 22, in Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN,...

    Synonyms: steal abduct abstract appropriate bag bandit bash and grab bone boost burgle burglarize borrow cheat chore commandeer confiscate convert cop cozen crib embezzle filch fleece flog

Origin

Perhaps from dialectal kip (“to snatch”).

Forms

kipes kiping kiped kipp kype kypp