subs. (old cant).—A hedge: cf. quot. 1610 (HARMAN, B. E., HALL, GROSE).
1565. HARMAN, A Caveat or Warening for Common Cursetors, 86. We wyll fylche some duddes of the RUFFEMANS.
1608. DEKKER, Lanthorne and Candlelight [GROSART, Works, iii. 203].
| If we mawnd Pannam, lap or Ruff-peck, | |
| Or poplars of yarum: he cuts, bing to the RUFFMANS. | |
| Ibid. (1612), O, per se O [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 12]. | |
| When they did seeke, then we did creepe, | |
| and plant in RUFFE-MANS low. |
1610. ROWLANDS, Martin Mark-all, 40 [Hunterian Club’s Reprint, 1874]. RUFFMANS, not the hedge or bushes as heretofore: but now the eauesing of houses or roofes: Cragmans is now vsed for the hedge.
1611. MIDDLETON and DEKKER, The Roaring Girle, v. 1. I woud lib all the lightmans … under the RUFFEMANS.
1622. FLETCHER, Beggar’s Bush, iii. 3. To mill from the RUFFMANS commission and slates.
