Green’s Dictionary of Slang

scaperloit v.

also scaperloyt, scopperloit

to gad about, to wander, thus scaperloiterer, a truant from school.

J. Phillips New news from Tory- land 9: [T]o run every day Scaperloytering after a a penniworth of Lowsy Farce.
J. Phillips [trans.] Cervantes Don Quixote 75: [W]hile we run scaper-loitring after I know not what fortunate Adventures, we are like to meet with nothing but Sorrow and Disaster [ibid.] 310: [M]y Wife, she loves her Belly better then her Back—and that’s the reason she takes so patiently my late rambling and scaperloitring after my Master Don Quixote’s Tail [ibid.] 515: Pray whether are you Scaperloytring at this time a night? To take the Air, an’t please yee.
J. Phillips [trans.] Cervantes Don Quixote 423: For I remember when I was a little Scaperloiterer, and us’d to play truant [...] .