Hop
. The plant, called by Tusser “Robin Hop.” (Danish hop.) To hop on one leg is the Anglo-Saxon hopetan or hoppian.
“Get into thy hopyard, for now it is time
To teach Robin Hop on his pole how to climb.”
Thick as hops. Very numerous; very compact.
“And thousand other things as thicke as hops.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.