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haberdine

haberdine noun: cod salted and dried.

Noun

haberdine (countable and uncountable, plural haberdines)

  1. cod salted and dried.
    • Yet can I set my Gallio's dieting,
      A pestle of a lark, or plover's wing;
      And warn him not to cast his wanton eyne
      On grosser bacon, or salt haberdine1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC

Forms of haberdine

pluralhaberdines

Origin of haberdine

From Dutch abberdaan, labberdaan, or a French [Term?] form. Compare Old French habordeau, from the name of a Basque district, and French Labourd, adjective Labourdin. The letter l was misunderstood as the French article l'.

Questions about haberdine

What does haberdine mean?
Haberdine means cod salted and dried.
What part of speech is haberdine?
Haberdine is a noun.
What is the plural of haberdine?
The plural of haberdine is haberdines.

Words near haberdine in the dictionary

  1. haberdasherware
  2. haberdasherwares
  3. haberdashery
  4. haberdashes
  5. haberdashing
  6. haberdine
  7. haberdines
  8. Haberfield
  9. habergeon
  10. habergeons
  11. haberget

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