Lexicographical Neighbors of Forpit
Literary usage of Forpit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages by Ronald Edward Zupko (1985)
"4 Charts make l forpit...5 ... 3 Quarts make l forpit...4 ... or forpit...Scotland:
the fourth part of a peck, otherwise called a lippie. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842)
"wha'll buy my lucky forpit o' sa'at?—see how he shugs !" This personage died
about twenty years ago, and did not live to see her trade abolished by the ..."
3. Rob Roy by Walter Scott, David Henry Montgomery (1894)
"... about a wee bit business o' my ain wi' Mattie Simpson, that wants a forpit or
twa o' peers that will never be missed in the Ha'-house — and when we were ..."
4. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings by John Kay (1838)
"Wha'll-buy my lucky forpit o1 sa-at—Na, na, deil ane yet !" was Maggy's usual
cry, sometimes varied into a species of rhyme, as she proceeded along the ..."
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