(a) Cook. A kind of sausage; the neck of an animal filled with stuffing; a filling or stuffing; also, tripe; ?also, haggis; also fig.; (b) ~ ale, a kind of cheap ale; ~ iren, an implement associated with the making of sausage; ~ makere, one who makes sausages; ~ pentis, a protective lean-to over a butcher's stall; ~ stokes, ?tables on which butchers chopped entrails; ~ wif, a woman who makes or sells sausages; also as surname; (c) in comparisons and proverbs; (d) in place names; (e) in surnames [some early quots. may be Anglo-French].