or poppelars, popler, paplar, subs. (old cant).—Porridge: spec. milk-porridge.—HARMAN (1576); HEAD (1665); B. E. (c. 1696); COLES (1724); GROSE (1785).
1608. DEKKER, Lanthorne and Candlelight [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 3].
| The Ruffin cly the nab of the Harmanbeck, | |
| If we mawnd Pannam, lap, or Ruff-peck, | |
| Of POPLARS of yarum: he cuts, bing to the Ruffmans. |
1611. MIDDLETON and DEKKER, The Roaring Girle, v. 1. [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 10].
| A gage of ben Rom-bouse, | |
| In a bousing-ken of Rom-vile | |
| Tearcat. Is benar than a Caster, | |
| Peck, pennam, lap, or POPLER. |
1641. R. BROME, A Joviall Crew, ii. Here’s Pannam and Lap, and good POPLARS of Yarrum.
1707. J. SHIRLEY, The Triumph of Wit [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 36]. With lap and POPLARS held I tack.
