tup

1) A ram or male sheep.

1494 viij hundreth yowes and tuppes, Barmston

1554 twoo twynters waders [wethers] and two toppes 9/4, Abbotside

1615 a humble mugge tuppe, Brandsby

1642 Tuppes are eyther hunge t, close tup, Riggon tuppes, Elmswell

1697 20 ews and a tup Ł7 7 0, Holmfirth. By-names are evidence of the word’s much longer history: 1258 Peter Touplamb, Pontefract

1379 Willelmus Tuphird, Beamsley.

dates 1258 1379 1494 1554 1615 1642 1697

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