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yppe

  • noun [ feminine ]
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yppe, an; f.
A raised place,
a look-out place
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  • Yppe vel weardsteal

    spectacula,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 35.
a stage, platform
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  • Glígmanna yppe orcestra vel

    pulpitus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 36.
a dais, the raised floor in a hall. Cf.
Icel. pallr for this sense
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  • Eode æþeling (

    Beowulf

    ) tó yppan, ðǽr se óþer wæs, Hróðgár grétte,
      Beo. Th. 3634; B. 1815.
the upper part of a house, an upper chamber
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  • Yppe (Ep. Gl. uppae)

    in aestivo caenaculo, ubi per aestatem frigus captant,

      Txts. 70, 553.
  • Hié ealle on yppan wunedon (cf. in coenaculum ascenderunt ubi manebant, Acts 1, 13),

      Blickl. Homl. 133, 26.
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  • yppe, n.