chauldron
chauldron is the obsolete form of chawdron.
Meaning of chawdron
Noun
chawdron (plural chawdrons)
- The entrails of an animal, especially when used as a food ingredient; offal.
- The ſecond kind of Letuce, hath crompled leaues, wrinckled and gathered or drawen together almoſt like the Moquet or Chauden of a Calfe: […]1578, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Letuce”, in Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: […], London: […] [Henry [i.e., Hendrik van der] Loë for] Gerard Dewes, […], →OCLC, 5th part...
- A sauce made from chopped animal entrails.
- Lyfte that ſwanne. Take and dyghte hym as a gooſe but let hym haue a largyour bꝛawne ⁊ loke ye haue chawdꝛon.1508, “And Here Begynneth Keruyng of All Maner of Fowles”, in […] The Boke of Keruynge, London: […] Wynkyn de Worde […], →OCLC, signature B.i., recto
Forms of chauldron
| plural | chauldrons |
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Questions about chauldron
- What is chauldron the obsolete form of?
- Chauldron is the obsolete form of chawdron.
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