high-taper
[Altered from higtaper (Lyte, Gerarde, Cotgrave), earlier higgis taper, hickis taper (Turner).]
= hag-taper, q.v.
| 1605 Timme Quersit. iii. 179 Take of..hightaper, and of ferne, of each one pound and a halfe. 1861 Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. IV. 135. |