Lippie

A quarter of a Scots peck, and a sixteenth of a firlot.

The lippie is the bottom rung of the Scots dry measure, a quarter of a peck and a sixteenth of a firlot. Its other name, forpet, is simply fourth part worn down by use, which tells you how the thing was actually handled: it was the scoop you quartered a peck with.

Being the smallest unit made it the retail one. A cottar buying meal for the week bought lippies, and the word survived in Scottish shops and kitchens long after the measure itself had been abolished, in the way that small domestic quantities usually outlive the systems that defined them.

As with every unit in this family, the absolute size follows the commodity: the oat and barley standard is larger than the wheat one, so the figure above is the wheat reckoning.