Obs. [f. BARLEY, as source of malt liquor: cf. BARLEY-HOOD.] In phr. To have on or wear a barley-cap: to be tipsy; hence barley-cap = tippler.
1598. E. Gilpin, Skial. (1878), 67. Some weeuil, mault-worme, barly-cap.
1611. Cotgr., Forbeu … pot-shotten, whose fudling or barley Cap is on.
1679. O. Heywood, in Yorksh. Diaries (Surt.), II. 262. He never wore a cap, unlesse it was a barley-cap.
