intj. (old Scots’).—A call for truce or quarter: also BARLEY.
c. 1550. Christis Kirk Green, xvi. Quhile he cryed BARLAFUMMIL, I am slane.
1657. COLVIL, Whigs Supplication, or Scotch Hudibras (1751), 110.
| When coach-men drink and horses stumble, | |
| It’s hard to miss a BARLAFUMBLE. |
1814. SCOTT, Waverley, xiii. A proper lad o’ his quarters, that will not cry BARLEY in a brulzie.
