▪ I. † poper1 Obs.
prob. = popard.
| c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 63 A Ryal Fest... Le iij cours. Gely. Datys in comfyte. Fesaunt. Gullys. Poper [etc.]. |
▪ II. † poper2 Obs. rare—1.
(?) (Hazlitt suggests ‘a papist’.)
| 1575 Gascoigne Pr. Pleas. Kenilw. Poems 1870 II. 93 When her maiestie entred the gate, there stoode Hercules for Porter,..presenting the keyes..with these words:..My frends a Porter I, no Poper here am plast. |
▪ III. poper
see popper v.