# Forpet

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A **forpet**, **lippie** or **lippy** was a Scottish unit of [dry measure](/source/Dry_measure) equal to a quarter or fourth-part of a [peck](/source/Peck).

A lippie was so called because a *leap* was a traditional name for a *basket* in Scotland. [1]

## See also

- [Firlot](/source/Firlot)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Charles Jones (1997), *The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language*, p. 422, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0748607544](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0748607544)

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