Obs. Forms: 1 cipp, 5 chyppe. [OE. cipp, corresp. to Du. kip neut. ‘small strip of wood in the plough which holds fast the ploughshare,’ ad. L. cippus ‘post, stake, beam of the stocks,’ app. also in later times in this sense: cf. CHEP.] The share-beam of a plow; also, perh., (like L. dentalis) the share itself.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 102. Dentale, cipp.
a. 1500. Metr. Voc., ibid. 628. Cultur, dentale, vomerque [glossed] cultere, chyppe, chare.
