Middle English Dictionary Entry
refet(te n.
Entry Info
| Forms | refet(te n. Also refete, refite, reffet, reffite & (errors) resett, resset. |
| Etymology | Cp. EMnE rivet fish liver. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
?Edible entrails of a fish; ?a fish liver; ?also, fish roe [esp. last quot.].
Associated quotations
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)577 : Codde, haddok, by þe bak splat þem, in þe dische liynge; pike owt þe boonus, clense þe refett [Sln 1315: refyte; Sln 2027: Refette] in þe bely bydynge.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)839 : Pike withe his reffett [Sln 1315: reffyte].
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)74 : To boile gurnard or rochet, draw a gurnard at the belly and tak out the sound and the resset [MS: reffet], and slit the pok, shave it clene, and let it hang by.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)80 : To mak a pik in soupes..Tak the resset [MS: reffet] and chope it smalle.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)96 : Lay the pik in a chargiour and the resset [MS: reffet] with the pouche and the fee aboue and serue it furthe.
- a1500 PFulham (Jas 43)82 : Let the yong leve that woll be so plenteous For thogh the bottomles belyes [of older fish] be not ffyllyd with such refete [*Trin-C: refett; Hartshorne: Thought they moore towgh be..And the belyes not shewyng an ynche resett], yet the saver of sauze may make yt good mete.