or lance-knight, lanceman-prigger, subs. (old).—A highwayman.
1591. GREENE, The Second Part of Conny-catching [GROSART (1881–6), x. 76]. The Priggar if he be a LAUNCE MAN, that is, one that is already horst. Ibid., 81. It fortuned not long after, that this LANCEMAN PRIGGAR was brought to Tenro Gayle.
1599. NASHE, Lenten Stuffe [GROSART (1884), v. 278]. He fell into the theeuish hands of … LAUNCEKNIGHTS.
