tappit hen
nounEtymology Borrowed and modified from Scots tappit-hen.
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.
- 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 hena. 1740, unknown author, Andro and his Cutty Gun:
- Synonyms
- Marie Jeanne, tregnum