LOWP
LOWP v jump
Lowp comes from Old Norse ‘hlaupa’ meaning to jump. James Carmichael in his Collection of Proverbs (a1628) advises us to “luke or ye loup”. This was not always an option, and Sir David Lindsay writes in Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (1552) of an involuntary lowper: “Heir sall the karle lowp of the [s]caffald”. Lowping of a more joyous sort appears in one of Robert Semphill’s Satirical Poems...
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