Lexicographical Neighbors of Reested
Literary usage of Reested
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"reested, salted, dried, and roasted; applied to fish, particularly to herrings.
Not the same as REEST, 2. See ROOZE. ..."
2. Tales of My Landlord by Walter Scott, Jedidiah Cleishbotham, Robert Morton (1820)
"Let us cut up bushes and briars, pile them before the door and set fire to them,
and smoke that auld devil's dam as if she were to be reested for bacon. ..."
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