yarum

English

Noun

yarum (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of yarrum
    • 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors‎, 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.

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