Definition of Harslet

1. n. See Haslet.

Definition of Harslet

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of haslet) ¹

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Definition of Harslet

1. haslet [n -S] - See also: haslet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harslet

harsh
harshed
harshen
harshened
harshening
harshens
harsher
harshes
harshest
harshing
harshlier
harshliest
harshly
harshness
harshnesses
harslet (current term)
harslets
harstigite
hart
hart's-ear
hart's-tongue
hart's-tongue fern
hart's ear
hart-tongue
hartal
hartals
hartbees
hartbeest
hartbeests
hartebeest

Literary usage of Harslet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"Pigs' harslet. •Wash and dry some liver, sweetbreads, and fat and lean bits of pork, beating the latter with a rolling-pin to make it tender: season with ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Haslet vel harslet [as-lit, ars-lit], sb. Liver, lights, &c., of a pig. N'hamp. ... (haslet and harslet), and elsewhere. 'Haslet of a hogge.'—Palsgrave. ..."

3. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"Haslet vel harslet [as-lit, ars-lit], sb. Liver, lights, &c., of a pig. N'hamp. ... (haslet and harslet), and elsewhere. 'Haslet of a hogge."—Palsgrave. ..."

4. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"Nomenclátor, p. 87. In the Domestic Cookery, p. 64, ed. 1812—1815 (?), there are directions for dressing a Pig's harslet ..."

5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Same as harslet, qv ;IASP. The iron catch of a door which falb into a loop. Hence, to fasten. See Gesta Romano- rum, p. 464. ..."

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