Word.ws English Dictionary

tracklement

tracklement noun: a savoury condiment (for example a mustard, relish or chutney), especially one served with meat.

Noun

tracklement (plural tracklements)

  1. (UK, rare) A savoury condiment (for example a mustard, relish or chutney), especially one served with meat.
    • preserves, conserves and homemade tracklements are sold at1992, Simon Scott with Nancy Scott, Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands, 1993-1994, page 140
    • nestled together in a cunning arrangement, ornamented by the tracklements she had labored to obtain for her friends2004, Katharine Weber, The Little Women, page 159

Forms of tracklement

pluraltracklements

Origin of tracklement

Coined in its current sense by the English cookery writer Dorothy Hartley in her book Food in England in 1954, but probably derived from a similar dialect word with variant spellings (e.g. tranklement, tanchiment) used before that date across North and Central England and meaning "ornaments, trinkets; bits of things".

Questions about tracklement

What does tracklement mean?
Tracklement means a savoury condiment (for example a mustard, relish or chutney), especially one served with meat.
What part of speech is tracklement?
Tracklement is a noun.
What is the plural of tracklement?
The plural of tracklement is tracklements.

Words near tracklement in the dictionary

  1. tracking with
  2. trackings
  3. tracklayer
  4. tracklayers
  5. tracklaying
  6. tracklement
  7. tracklements
  8. trackless
  9. trackless train
  10. trackless trains
  11. tracklessly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tracklement (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: “tracklement.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tracklement. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.