yarum
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Noun[edit]
yarum (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of yarrum
- 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors[1], T. Bensley, published 1814, page 68:
- Shee hath a cacling chete, a grunting chete ruff pecke, cassan, and poppelars of yarum.
Shee hath a hen, a pygge, baken, cheese, and mylke porrage.
- 1609, Thomas Dekker, “Lanthorne and Candle-light. Or, The Bell-man’s Second Nights-walke. […] The Second Edition, […]: Of Canting, How Long It hath beene a Language: How It Comes to bee a Language: How It is Deriued, & by whom It is Spoken. [A Canting Song.]”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Non-dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: […] [Hazell, Watson, & Viney] for private circulation only, published 1885, →OCLC, page 203:
- The Ruffin cly the nab of the Harmanbeck, / If we mawnd Pannam, lap, or Ruff-peck, / Or poplars of yarum: he cuts, bing to the Ruffmans, / Or els he ſweares by the light-mans, / To put our ſtamps in the Harmans.