Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) lace.

1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 51: Peake, Any Lace.
1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn).
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Peak c. any kind of Lace.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1728		Defoe Street Robberies Considered 34: Peak, Lace.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 15: Lace – Peake.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.