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Uncertain.

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reasty (comparative more reasty, superlative most reasty)

  1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) rusty and rancid; applied to salt meat
    • 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: [] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: [] Robert Triphook, [], and William Sancho, [], 1810, →OCLC:
      Much bacon is reasty

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reasty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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