Middle English Dictionary Entry
chopin n.
Entry Info
| Forms | chopin n. Also schopin(e, ? choppe, chapping. |
| Etymology | OF chopine (from LG; cp. G schoppen). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A liquid measure: ?half a pint.
Associated quotations
- (1310) Doc.Gildh.Lond.in RS 12.3432 : Quod nullas facient falsas mensuras, prout mensurae quae vocantur schopinas et gilles.
- (1311-12) in Harrod Rep.Rec.Colchester (1865) [OD col.] : [All the Vintners broke the Assize selling with vessels not sealed namely] Choppes.
- ?a1400 *Albi Reynolds 5081 Recipes (Albi Reynolds 5081)f.23r : For sor eyen: Tak .1. schopyn of whyt wyn, as moch of well water, of alum .1. ℥, of feniel as moch.
- ?a1425 WBible(2) Gloss.3 Kings (Cld E.2)7.26 : A sextarie is as a chopyn of Pariys.
- (1455) Doc.in Gilbert Cal.Dublin 1288 : Aftyr the Kyng's ale mesure, that ys to sayne, by the chappinge mesure, the pynt, quarte, potell, and galowne of the same mesewre.