1 gen 1696 anni - leap

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A basket made of rushes or wands which had a variety of uses but is most commonly noted in connection with fishing. 1314 ‘Robert Walker 6d for putting a <i>fish lepp </i> in the mill-pond’, Wakefield (YRS57/40); 1467 <i>machinas voc’ lepes pro kepirzfrye </i>, Quarmby (MD225/1/176); 1609 <i>to lay leapes in any brooke to tak trouts in spawning tyme </i>, Hipperholme (WCR11/172). Other leaps were used for carrying grain or holding bread: 1423 <i>j lepe facta de virgis, pro grano portando </i>, York (SS45/80); 1588 <i>one bread leape </i>, Dalton (WBW/19); 1696 <i>one breadlip, </i> Holmfirth (IH). In inventories they feature alongside maunds, scuttles, skeps and the like: 1457-8 <i>In leps et skeps Joh’i Schau, iiijs ijd, </i>Fountains Abbey (SS130/51); 1580 <i>payd to stotele </i> [sic] <i>maker for on leape, two wyndo treles & ij stotels iijs </i>, Stockeld (YRS161/17); 1615 <i>one leape, 8 scuttles, 2 maund’ cost ijs viijd at my doer </i>, Brandsby (NYRO44/107).

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