tappit hen

See also: tappit-hen

English

Etymology

Borrowed and modified from Scots tappit-hen.

Noun

tappit hen (plural tappit hens)

  1. (rare) A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.
  2. (Scotland) A hen with a tuft of feathers on her head.
    • a. 1740, unknown author, Andro and his Cutty Gun:
      Blyth , blyth , blyth was she,
      Blyth was she but and ben;
      And well the loo'd a Hawick gill,
      And leugh to see a tappit hen

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