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  • (noun) - Valour. Orpinn is the participle of verpa, to warp or throw in Old Norse. Hence, orped comes to signify "headlong, daring, or valorous." Pronounced OR-ped-ship. --Herbert Coleridge's Dictionary of the Oldest Words in the English Language, 1863

    April 22, 2018