subs. phr. (old).—A bishop.
1555. J. BRADFORD [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, i. 541. (He) seems to have first used the favourite pun of BITE-SHEEP for bishop.].
1659. GAUDEN, The Tears of the Church, 617. Those ‘who called the Bishops, the Popes, the Antichrists, the BITE-SHEEPS, the Oppressors,’ &c., and goes on to say, ‘These foule glosses first made by Martin Marprelate.’
