Sc. and north. dial. in form lapper. [f. LOPPER v.] A curdled or coagulated state or condition (of blood or milk). Also, partly melted snow, ‘slush.’
c. 1817. Hogg, Tales & Sk., V. 345. The country became waist-deep of lapper or half-melted snow.
1880. Jamieson, s.v. Lapper, The milk’s into a lapper.
1895. Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, ii. The ground about was all a-lapper with blood.
