sipe

1) To drain or leak, a dialect word that is still in use.

1503 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, Selby

1519 Porticus ecclesiae est defectivus in tegulis. Lez holywater stane sipis, Strensall.

places Selby Strensall
dates 1503 1519

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