A blockhead. Craven Glossary, 1828 (N.E.D.).
1843. Don’t call me sap-head until the custom-house officers catch me.—‘Lowell Offering,’ iv. 2. (Italics in the original.)
1852. Shabby, slipshod sisters sat silently and sadly sweating in the shade, while soiled and sozzling shirt-collars, and sticky shirts, stuck to such sap-heads as stirred in the sun.—Knick. Mag., xl. 183: from the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
