Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The heart, liver, and other edible viscera of an animal, especially hog viscera.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Originally, a piece of flesh to be roasted, especially part of the entrails of the wild boar; now, the entrails of a beast, especially of a hog, as the heart, liver, etc., used for human food.
Wiktionary
- n. the internal organs of an animal, especially the heart and liver of a pig
- n. a meatloaf made of that (and seasoning)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp. of a hog.
WordNet 3.0
- n. heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised
Etymologies
- From Old French hastilles ("entrails"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English hastelet, from Old French, diminutive of haste, roast meat, spit, perhaps from Latin hasta, spear, or of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“New legislation would see the resurgence of independently-run local shops, run by surly harridans selling overpriced tins of out-of-date haslet.”
“There was not a hog killed within three parishes of him whereof he had not some part of the haslet and puddings.”
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“So the butcher made two packages, one of the lean but tasty forequarters for Lukasz, anotherof haslet for the peasant Jan, and the lord of Bukowo, as petty a one as lived in all of Poland, rode home with his meat and a sense that he had been honored.”
Poland
“In this prudent way every portion of the Castle Gorka hogs was utilized: the good cuts for the banquet, the tougher ones in Pani Danusia's pierogi, the haslet in”
Poland
“And I want you to give the haslet, all of it, to this fellow they call Jan of the Beech Trees.”
Poland
“= -- You can generally buy a pig's brain and haslet at the slaughter house for about ten cents; wash them thoroughly; slice the heart, liver, and lights, and fry them light brown in a cents 'worth of drippings.”
“Two things he was particularly fond of, and upon which he flourished whenever he could get them -- turnip greens and "hog's gullicks," the "Adam's apple" of a hog's haslet, or the "google," as it is commonly called.”
“She also mentions haslet a pork meatloaf, and a pork, liver and kidney casserole called pigs fry "that some butchers sell as a mix".”
“[Harslet or haslet, the entrails of an animal, especially of a hog, as the heart, liver, &c.] a piece of meat I love, but have not eat of I think these seven years, and after dinner abroad by coach set her at Mrs. Hunt's and I to White”
“[Harslet or haslet, the entrails of an animal, especially of a hog, as the heart, liver, &c.] a piece of meat I love, but have not eat of I think these seven years, and after dinner abroad by coach set her at Mrs. Hunt's and I to White Hall, and at the Privy Seale I enquired, and found the Bill come for the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘haslet’.
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nouns
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Logolepsy
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Swine
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Letterrorists
A bunch of -let words, emphasis on the diminutive. Feel free to neologize.
booklet, flatlet, haslet, nutlet, platelet, streamlet, varlet, aglet, gablet, leaflet, piglet, ringlet and 504 more...
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Food--and our love for it!
words involving food and enjoying food
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Resource
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
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Verbalitis
syncretic
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Words that make you go hmmmm...
Interesting words you probably won't hear in your day-to-day.
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Because I like Them: G --- H
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That's Just Offal
Edible organ meats and leftover parts.
blood sausage, blood pudding, black pudding, scrapple, brawn, headcheese, drob, giblets, chitlins, chitlings, chitterlings, haggis and 55 more...
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Roetzel's Words
campanello, girello, sottofesa, culatello, onglet, paleron, philibeg, haslet, gruntle, chianina, supercharger, intercooler and 1 more...
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October List
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Hotel
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