Word.ws English Dictionary

reast

reast verb: to dry or smoke (meat, etc.).

Verb

reast (third-person singular simple present reasts, present participle reasting, simple past and past participle reasted)

  1. (transitive) To dry or smoke (meat, etc.)

Forms of reast

third-person singular presentreasts
present participlereasting
past participlereasted
pastreasted

Origin of reast

From roast.

Questions about reast

What does reast mean?
Reast means to dry or smoke (meat, etc.).
What part of speech is reast?
Reast is a verb.
What is the past tense of reast?
The past tense of reast is reasted.

Words near reast in the dictionary

  1. reassurest
  2. reassureth
  3. reassuring
  4. reassuringly
  5. reassurings
  6. reast
  7. reasted
  8. reastiness
  9. reasting
  10. reastonish
  11. reastonished

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “reast.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/reast. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.