1. lit. A pie made of lamb; † fig. applied to a young woman.
a. 1625. Beaum. & Fl., Custom Country, I. 1. A Surgeon, I must confesse an excellent desector; One that has cut up more young tender Lamb-pies—.
2. punningly. (Cf. LAM v., LAMBSKIN.)
1607. Markham, Caval., VIII. (1617), 6. This beating of horses thus amongst Horse-coursers is called giuing them Lambe-pye, from a knauish iest of a horse-coursers Boy.
1609. Dekker, Lanthorne & Candle-light, x. Wks. (Grosart), III. 280. How a Horse-courser makes a Iade that has no stomach to eate Lamb-pye.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Lamb-pye, Beating or Drubbing.
1791. Pegge, Derbicisms, Ser. II. 109. Lam, to beat; hence Lamb-pye, a drubbing.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia.
