Obs. Forms: 4 tirpell, -peile, tyrpeyl, -payl, turpel, 5 -pell, -pele. [Metathetic form of OF. trepeil uproar, trouble (12th c. in Godef.); according to Diez from OF. trepeiller to run hither and thither, f. treper to hop, TRIP, of German origin: cf. MLG. trippen to tread; also mod.F. trépigner to stamp.] A broil, encounter, tumult.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 1665. Þe Troiens þat had ben yn turpel [v.r. tirpell], At midnight tok þey conseil. Ibid., 15422. Þey [Britons] gadered þem to consail How to venge þat tyrpayl. Ibid. (c. 1330), Chron. (1810), 216. Withouten his conseile, or þe kynges wittyng, To maynten þer tirpeile he suore ageyn þe kyng.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 8841. But not-for-thi so it be-fell, That he was hurt at that turpell. Ibid., 18020. Foure hundrid of damyseles That lyued afftir that turpeles.
