Sc. [Etymol. unknown.] A small loaf or ‘roll’ of bakers’ bread, made of various sizes and shapes in different parts of Scotland.
1513–75. Diurn. Occurr. (1833), 301. Bappis of nyne for xijd.
1724. A. Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc., I. 91. Sowens and farles and Baps.
c. 1800. Mrs. Lyon, in Ramsay, Remin. (1870), Introd. 13. Are ye for your burial baps round or square?
