laider

His own parish wouldn't part with him if they got half Ireland, and sure they had the best right to him; but the next parish wanted to get him by the _lauve laider_ (strong hand,) for they thought it would bring a blessing on them to have his bones among them; so his own parishioners at last took and buried him by night, without the others knowing any thing about it.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829 Various

And shud ye be wanting to diskiver who is the pink of purliteness quite, and the laider of the hot tun in the houl city o'London — why it's jist meself.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1840

And shud ye be wantin 'to diskiver who is the pink of purliteness quite, and the laider of the hot tun in the houl city o' Lonon -- why it's jist mesilf.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829