hippings

hippings pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of hippins.
   • 1731 August 27 (Gregorian calendar), “Baptisms, Marriages, and Discipline in the parish of Melrose since November 1723, […]”, in Charles S. Romanes, editor, Melrose Parish Registers […] (Scottish Record Society; 45), Edinburgh: […] [F]or the Society by J[ames] Skinner & Company, Ltd., published 1913, →OCLC, page 179:

     Isobel Williamson cited, compeared and declared that she knew nothing who were the parents to the forsaid child or who laid it down, that she was the first came to the child, that she and others thought could not be above fourteen days’ old, that the child had a day and night busken with it, some hippings, but no writ, that the men in Oxnam water were present at her taking up the child, who also alarmed the rest of the neighbourhood.

   • 1824 November 12, Thomas Carlyle, “To Mrs. [Jane Welsh] Carlyle, Mainhill”, in James Anthony Froude, Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 […], volume I, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1882, →OCLC, page 256:

     This smallest and wershest of his Majesty’s subjects the worthy preacher dandles and fondles and dry-nurses and talks about in a way that is piteous to behold. He speculates on the progressive development of his senses, on the state of his bowels, on his hours of rest, his pap-spoons and his hippings.

   • 1950, Robert Penn Warren, chapter XII, in World Enough and Time: A Romantic Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 489:

     Then, three nights later, he came home late, to find her, as he had found her before, sitting at the hearth, the hearth swept and the fire made up, with the child in its hippings and swaddlings of rags on her lap.