hawebake

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A word of uncertain meaning, found only in the following passage. From its apparent form, it is supposed to signify the baked berry of the hawthorn—that is, coarse fare. It appears in the manuscripts sometimes as one word, sometimes as two words.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete, nonce word The baked berry of the hawthorn tree, i.e. coarse fare.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st haw, 2.