On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:24:33 -0500 Donald Lee Granberry
<noharness@mac.com> wrote:

The word "kip" is used as both a verb and as a noun.  It describes
the moves used by gymnasts and other athletes to change the position
of their bodies, usually from a low position to a high position.
People working the rings, parallel bars, the mats and, occasionally,
ice skaters use a "kip" to rise up from a low position.  It is a
favorite move used by clowns and dancer on the ice and off.  If you
consult a dictionary other than the one given to you by MS-Word, you
will likely find this definition.  You will also likely to discover
that it is also British slang for taking a nap and that it may also
be used as a noun in referring to a bundle of tanned hides (taken
from young or small animals) weighing 1,000 pounds.  I have also
heard the term "kippup" or "kip-up" used.  A kip can be, technically,
used to make downward motion as well, but that is fairly rare.

Somebody pass the word to Lord Redmond so that his minions can add it
to his dictionary.

Thanks for the information.  I'm not using any Microsoft products
though.  I used OpenOffice.org for spell checking and looked for
definitions in http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary . It had the nap
and hide definitions, but not the acrobatic one.

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Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age.


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