subs. (colloquial).—A pigeon pie. (DOO-TAIRT is excellent Scots for the same thing.) Cf., SNAKE TART = eel pie.
1857. REV. E. BRADLEY (‘Cuthbert Bede’), The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, pt. II., ch. vii. Why a DOVE-TART is what mortals call a pigeon-pie.
