dial. [prob. a. ONF. chep, in central F. cep, ‘partie qui porte le soc de la charrue’ Littré:—L. cipp-us stump of tree, stock, stake, beam; whence also OE. cyp(p: see CHIP. (It is less likely that chep is a variant of the latter.)] A piece of timber forming the sole of a turn-wrest plough; ‘the piece of wood on which the share is fixed.’ Boys (1796), loc. cit.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 247. Having also near the chep of the Plough a small fin to cut the roots of the grass.
1796. J. Boys, Agric. of Kent (1813), 51.
1807. R. W. Dickson, Agric., I. 9. The foot is tenoned to the end of the beam, and mortised at the bottom to the end of the chep…. The chep to which the share is fixed is five feet long, four inches wide, and five inches deep.
Hence † Cheped a., having a chep.
1796. J. Boys, Agric. of Kent (1813), 75. The radish is sown in March, on furrows made with a two or three-cheped plough.
