dial. [app. echoic: cf. FLIP v.]

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  † 1.  intr. To make a noise with thumb and finger which resembles the whispering of ‘thrip’ or ‘flip’; trans. to snap (the fingers). Obs.

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1594.  Nashe, Unfort. Trav., 33. He with clapping his handes and thripping his fingers seemed to dance an antike. Ibid., 34. A fifth … thript with his finger and his thumbe.

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  2.  trans. To jerk with a slight movement.

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1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 125. A Watch or a Jack, by being only wown up without thripping the balance or flyer.

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1901.  ‘Zack,’ T. Dunstable Weir, 190. Her zot under the big fig tree, thripping her lace-bobbins in and out.

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  † 3.  [Prob. the same word.] To spin. Obs. dial. Hence † Thripping vbl. sb.

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a. 1652.  Brome, Eng. Moor, III. i. Q. But where about in Norfolk wert thou bred? P. At Thripperstown, Sir, near the City of Norwich. Q. Where they live much by spinning with the Rocks? P. Thripping they call it, Sir. Ibid., IV. v. Yes, he has learn’d to thrip among the Mothers.

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