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1 hopa [ME hope] 1 ‘hope’, piece of enclosed marshland (S. Eng.). c1200 unam ~am marisci in villa de Westilleberie, que ~a jacet in extrema ~arum mearum versus orientalem que vocantur landhope extendentem versus austrum a hopo [sic] Levenoth (MS Merton Coll. 1259 [Essex]) OED s. v. hope; 1222 [tenet] unam ~am de marisco pro ij sol. Dom. S. Paul. 60 (Essex) ; 1250 totum pratum quod vocatur Rissemad cum hoppiis ad ‥ pratum pertinentibus (Middx) AncD A 2634; 1351 wallia modo vocata Prioressewalle ‥ cum una ~a adjacente Pub. Works I 59 (Stratford, Essex) ; 1389 duas hoppas jacentes juxta le Curtmersh’ (Kent) AncD D 879; 1443 illa wallea cum ~is et fossatis ‥ vocata Galyoneshope in marisco ‥ de Berkyng Cl 293 m. 14d. (cf. AncD C 4673: 1488); 1446 ij ~is marisci vocatis Esthopys in ‥ villa de Estilbery Cl 296 m. 5d.. 2 blind valley, pasture (Northumb). 1326 Tyrset’ in Tyndale ‥ est ibidem quedam ~a que vocatur Tyrsethop que valuit tempore pacis per annum in herbagio xxvj li. ‥ IPM 97/2 m. 2; 1330 medietatem cujusdam ~e ‥ que vocatur Waynhope, que ~a ad ix li. [extenditur] Cl 149 m. 25; 1373 medietas ‥ cujusdam pasture vocate Brechenshop’ ‥ xvj ~arum, ij scalingarum [etc.] Pat 288 m. 14.
2 hopa, ~um [MEhop; formhepa, ~um (?) by conf. w.ME hep] , dry measure; b (for salt).Cf. ringa. 1107 constituo ‥ exennium ‥ de Stoke unum hopum avene Reg. Roff. Ep. f. 132 (cf. Reg. Roff. 6: de Stokes xvj summas et j ~um avene); 1209 summa [avene]: ccxlviij quarteria dimidium, j estricum, j ~a Pipe Wint. 7; 1222 Matill’ ‥ tenet x acras et debet j stricam avene. ‥ Robertus ‥ v acras et debet j hoppam Dom. S. Paul. 17; 1234 recepit ‥ de frumento miserecordie lxxiij summas et ij hopfas; curall’ vij summas vij hopf’ Cust. Glast. 6; 1243 [dabunt] ‥ vj d. et j ~am avene ad festum S. Michaelis CurR XVII 1329; 1260 bordarii ‥ [reddunt] ‥ ix hop’ fabarum ‥ villata de Y. tenetur reddere x hop’ siliginis (Cust. Otterton) MonExon 256a; 1267 (v. granarium 4b); 1275 subballivus cepit ‥ xij d. et hopham avene ad removendum ipsum de jurata Hund. I 465a; c1282 de ‥ j ~a frumenti de chirseto RB Worc. 375; 1292 debet habere de frumento, ordeo, et avena j hepam de xj garbis de quolibet blado RentSurv. R 675; 1293 cxxiiij hopp’ farine avene IPM 64/16 (Wales) ; 1310 vij hoppe de avena, de vesse, de pisis [etc.] Reg. S. Aug. 204; 1316 in v bussellis dim., ij ~is frumenti emptis Cart. Glam. 840; 1352 de exitu j meie plene in grangia ‥ xxxv quart., iij estr’, j hop’ Comp. Worc. I 68; 1368 de ‥ hepo (v. granarium 4b); 1376 si colligant stipulam pro uno opere debent colligere viij upas, ita quod ‥ upa contineat x garbas IMisc 208/4 (Dors) .  b 1173 pro lv ~is de sale Pipe 188; 1174 pro xxxij hoppis salis Pipe 8; 1296 cepit unam salinam, redd’ p. a. xxx hop’ salis Hal. Durh. 2.
3 hopa [MEhop] , circular band, hoop; b (for mill). c dog collar. 1311 carrette: ‥ fabro pro ~is, gropes, et dynelegges faciendis de dicto ferro MinAc 875/7 (cf. ib.: ad hopis et gropes); 1335 in ligno pro ~is pro doleis cervisie Comp. Swith. 231; 1342 in j magno hop’ pro plumbo ‥ in ij barelhopes Sacr. Ely II 117; 1350 in juncturis, stapils, hupis, [etc.] pro fonte infra abbathiam ‥ de proprio ferro Ac. Durh. 550; 1350 in ~is cum superposicione pro vasis ligneis ligandis vj d. Rec. Elton 357; 1352 in stipendio fabri pro ij ~is faciendis ad j civeram iij d. Ib. 371; 1351 in iij hoopis ferreis emptis pro rotis MinAc Wistow 61; 1368 in ‥ ij aliis paribus rotarum fretandis, cum hop’ emptis ad idem Ac. Man. Cant. (Ebony) .  b 1320 in ~a ferrea empta pro axe [molendini] KR Ac 482/1 m. 5d.; 1324 in fusillo ‥ et ~is pro capite axis ejusdem molendini emendandis ‥ MinAc 1148/6; 1327 pro reparacione ~e axis exterioris ‥ et ‥ ~e interioris capitis axis Ac. Sheriffs 14/12; 1333 in j hop’ ad ‥ molendinum cum clavis et bordis LTR Mem 105 m. 194; 1342 pro ‥ j ~a ad circuend’ molar’ MinAc 1091/6 m. 2.  c pecoris tinnitum et canis hoppa [v. l. oppa] (Quad.) GAS 194 (cf. : circularium).

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