An alternative spelling of cypress which has two distinct origins and meanings. It was the name of rich textile fabrics which were apparently imported from or via Cyprus.
From the fourteenth century, nails began to be classified according to the original price per hundred, but when prices changed such terms were more an indication of size.
This survives as a place-name in the Huddersfield area, in Fixby, Kirkburton and Linthwaite, descriptive in all three cases of a linking lane or road which ascends a hill directly and obliquely.
The peg which passed through a hole at the top end of a stone slate, thereby securing it behind the laths on a roof. Formerly the pins were made of wood or bone.
A local glossary has the following definition: ‘an instrument used in weaving to keep the threads straight. It also acts as a support to the shuttle as it runs, and, on being pulled to the piece, it drives the threads of the woof closer together’.