Noun: kipe
Sample Sentences
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The completed kipe looks like a crinoline made for a giantess; from the slender waist the skirts swell to a diameter of eight feet at the hem.
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The kipe is only the mouth to the fisherman's elaborate trap and is fixed so that it faces up-river. [1947, Brian Waters, Severn Tide, J. M. Dent, page 149:]
Nouns inflected like kipe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English kipe, kype, from Old English cȳpe, cȳpa (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kipǭ, *kippǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gey- (“to bend, twist”).
2. Akin to Middle Low German kīpe ("basket"; > German Low German Kiep, Kiepke (“basket”), German Kiepe (“carrying basket”)), Norwegian kaup (“wooden box; crate”). See: Middle English Nouns '
kipe', Old English Nouns '
cȳpe', German Nouns '
Kiepe'.
Verbs referencing "kipe"
Icelandic Nouns
kippa, German Nouns
Kiepe.