subs. (Scots’).—1. A heap of corn-sheaves: four set upright and one above.
2. (Scots’).—See quot.
1819. SCOTT, The Bride of Lammermoor, xix. I should like well would my wife and family permit me to return to my sowens and my POOR-MAN-OF-MUTTON. [SCOTT: ‘The blade-bone of a shoulder of mutton is called in Scotland “a POOR MAN,” as in some parts of England it is termed a “poor knight of Windsor,” in contrast, it must be presumed, to the baronial ‘Sir Loin. A Scotch laird was once asked by an English landlord what he would have for dinner. He replied, “I think I could relish a morsel of a POOR MAN.”]
