jan 1, 1519 - sipe

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To drain or leak, a dialect word still in use. 1503 <i>shall wall up ... the utter west syde of his swynstye ... so that no filth ... or dunge come nor discend ... into the grounde of the said John Goldall excepte that it be by sipinge or casualtie,</i> Selby (SS85/30); 1519 <i>Porticus ecclesiae est defectivus in tegulis. Lez holywater stane sipis,</i> Strensall (SS35/272).

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