kippage
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Aphetic form of French équipage.
Noun
[edit]kippage (usually uncountable, plural kippages)
- (chiefly Scotland, now rare, historical) Those sailing together on a ship, both crew and passengers.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 76:
- To find a kippage for a convict ship was no easy matter, for many a seaman would heave sharp about at the prospect of signing on to a vessel with a cargo of cutthroats.
- (Scotland, obsolete) Confusion, disorder.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A fit of temper; rage.