Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) a sheep.

1703		Hell Upon Earth 5: Havil, a Sheep.
1708		J. Hall Memoirs (1714) 12: Havil, a Sheep.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions .
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.