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tharf-cake Now dial.|ˈθɑːfkeɪk|
Forms: 4 þerf, þerue cake, 6 therfe, tharffe, Sc. thraf, threfe cake, 7 tharck-cake, 7–9 tharcake.
[f. tharf a. + cake n.]
A cake of unleavened bread; now spec. a flat circular cake of oat-, rye-, or barley-meal, unleavened, and sometimes flavoured with butter and treacle; in the latter case = parkin.
13..E. E. Allit. P. B. 635 Abraham..Þrwe þryftyly þer-on þo þre þerue kakez. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 269 A þerf Cake, And a lof of Benes and Bren I-Bake for my Children. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. ii. (Town & C. Mouse) xviii, Thraf caikis als, I trow, scho spairit nocht. 1560Pilkington Expos. Aggeus (1562) 92 Elias, fleeing from Jezebel, founde a therfe cake baked in the asshes. 1634–5Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 122 The entertainment we accepted..was Tharck-cakes, two eggs, and some dried fish buttered. 1691Ray N.C. Words s.v. Bannock, Tharcakes,..cakes made of oat-meal,..and fair water, without yeast, or leaven, and so baked. c1746Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 57 'Twur os thodd'n os o Thar-Cake. 1825Brockett N.C. Wds., Thauf-cake. 1828Craven Gl., Thar⁓cake, a heavy, unleavened cake. 1888Sheffield Gloss. s.v., A year or two ago I noticed that a shop-keeper..advertised tharf-cake for sale... They call it parkin instead of using the old word. 1893–4Northumbld. Gloss., Tharf-kyek, Thaaf-keahyk, Thaf-kyek, Tharth-kyek, Thaugh-cyek, Tharfy. |