ˈhaver-cake north. dial.
[f. haver n.2: see cake n. 1 a and b.]
Oatcake.
| 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 269 (MS. U.) A fewe Cruddes and Craym and an hauir cake [1377 B. vi. 284 hauer cake]. 1542 Boorde Dyetary xi. (1870) 259 Hauer cakes in Scotlande is many a good..lordes dysshe. 1606 Peacham Art of Drawing 68 A blew stone, such as they make Haver or Oten cakes upon. 1829 Glover Hist. Derby I. 198 Oat bread, or Haver-cake is the food of a large portion of the Derbyshire peasantry. 1855 E. Waugh Lanc. Life (1857) 104 Oatmeal porridge, and oat-cake, enter largely into the diet of country people in this part of Lancashire. They used to pride themselves in the name of ‘the Havercake Lads’. |