subs. (old).—A wanton: cf. PARTRIDGE, PHEASANT, and GROUSE: see TART.
1614. JONSON, Bartholomew Fair, iv. 3. Here will be Zekiel Edgworth, and three or four gallants with him at night, and I have neither PLOVER nor quail for them; persuade this … to become a bird of the game.
