Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of pie made from chopped substances.
- noun An impertinent chatterer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A kind of meat pie.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A kind of
meat pie .
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There was also a dish called chewet that was a concotion of meat or fish mixed with fruit and spices.
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There was also a dish called chewet that was a concotion of meat or fish mixed with fruit and spices.
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One of the most important pieces of lead work in art is the figure of an angel on the chewet of Ste.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
qms commented on the word chewet
You fill it with lean meat or suet
And call it a mortress or chewet,
But if crust enfold it
So that you can hold it
It's pie any way you construe it.
July 2, 2016