1690–1700; < Dutch: shell, pod, cover
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Und dish ish de test of your power:- Vhile ve shtand ourselfs round in a row, You moost roll from de dop of dis tower, Down shdairs to de valley pelow.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
There is no furniture or other sort of household goods in the Sakai's dop.
From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by Sanpietro, I. Stone
Dop, dop, n. a copper cup with a wooden handle, in which a gem is soldered to be held while being cut or polished.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
De lady make welcome her gast in, Ash he shtep to de dop of de shtair, She look like an angel got lost in A forest of audumn-prown hair.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
He said to the members of the Bond, "Don't you tax diamonds and I won't tax dop," as the Cape brandy is called.
From Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess
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