Lexicographical Neighbors of Rypeck
Literary usage of Rypeck
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... or “rypeck,” the name given on the Thames to the sharp-pointed pole by which
a barge or punt is moored? WP11 Eton. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1890)
"There was yet another chance for a bump at the turning of the boat round the
rypeck at the Rushes; but the boat which got safely round the Rushes first was ..."
3. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1859)
"... spikes on their ends, called in these parts "rypeck*:" why or wherefore they
have received this name we cannot ascertain ; lastly an enormous iron rake. ..."
4. Fishing Gossip: Or, Stray Leaves from the Note-books of Several Anglers by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell (1866)
"All at once in goes the rypeck (the pole used to fix the boat) and over slides,
without a splash, the junk stone (a heavy stone weight, having a cord ..."
5. The Practical Fisherman: Dealing with the Natural History, the Legendary by John Harrington Keene (1881)
"We duly arrived at this much-to-be-desired trysting place, and, dropping the
weight overboard quietly, and fixing a short rypeck to the stern of the punt, ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... or “rypeck,” the name given on the Thames to the sharp-pointed pole by which
a barge or punt is moored? WP11 Eton. ..."
7. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1890)
"There was yet another chance for a bump at the turning of the boat round the
rypeck at the Rushes; but the boat which got safely round the Rushes first was ..."
8. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1859)
"... spikes on their ends, called in these parts "rypeck*:" why or wherefore they
have received this name we cannot ascertain ; lastly an enormous iron rake. ..."
9. Fishing Gossip: Or, Stray Leaves from the Note-books of Several Anglers by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell (1866)
"All at once in goes the rypeck (the pole used to fix the boat) and over slides,
without a splash, the junk stone (a heavy stone weight, having a cord ..."
10. The Practical Fisherman: Dealing with the Natural History, the Legendary by John Harrington Keene (1881)
"We duly arrived at this much-to-be-desired trysting place, and, dropping the
weight overboard quietly, and fixing a short rypeck to the stern of the punt, ..."
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