havercaken.
/ˈheɪvəkeɪk/, U.S. /ˈheɪvərˌkeɪk/, Scottish English /ˈhevərkek/ In later use chiefly English regional (northern) and Scottish.
An oatcake; (now) esp. a (kind of) large, thin oatcake baked on a griddle and dried. Also: such cakes collectively. Cf. haverbread n.
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c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. vi. l. 284 (MED) I haue..but two grene cheses, A fewe cruddes and creem and an hauer cake [C text a cake of otes].
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xi. sig. F.iv Hauer cakes in scotlande is many a good..lordes dysshe.
1606 H. Peacham Art of Drawing 68 A blew stone, such as they make Haver or Oten cakes upon.
1789 W. Bentley Hist. Town & Parish Halifax 83 Haver-cakes, oat-cakes.
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 198 Oat bread, or Haver-cake is the food of a large portion of the Derbyshire peasantry.
1855 E. Waugh Sketches Lancs. Life 112 Oatmeal porridge, and their famous 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’.
1900 J. Steele in D. Clark Sel. Sc. Canad. Poets 281 Whatever shape it [sc. oatmeal] may assume, In scone or havercake.
1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. & Lore 125 Havercake, oatcake. Much less eaten than formerly—more's the pity.
2012 B. Findlay Celtic Diet 143 Havercakes or riddlecakes are made from a soft dough or batter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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