Obs. exc. dial. Also 7 kybzey. [Origin uncertain: cf. KIPE.] A small wicker-basket.
1615. Markham, Eng. Housew., III. i. (1668), 96. With a gathering hook, gather those which be full Ripe, and put them into your Cherry-pot, or Kybzey, hanging by your side or upon any bough you please.
1706. Phillips, Kibsey, a kind of Wicker-basket.
1754. Martin, Eng. Dict. (ed. 2), Kibsy, a sort of wicker basket.
1879. J. W. Horsley, in Macm. Mag., XL. 501. I was coming home with my kipsy (basket).
