subs. (old colloquial).—The head: almost always in derision: see CRUMPET.—GROSE (1785).
1604. SHAKESPEARE, Winter’s Tale, i. 2.
| Was this taken | |
| By any understanding PATE but thine? |
1622. FLETCHER, The Spanish Curate, iii. 4. She gave my PATE a sound knock that it rings yet.
1825. T. JONES, The True Bottom’d Boxer [The Universal Songster, i. 96.] Shaking a flipper, and milling a PATE.
1836. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Nurse’s Story,’ i. 54.
| The thin grey locks of his failing hair | |
| Have left his little bald PATE all bare. |
