cawdron

English

Noun

cawdron (plural cawdrons)

1. Obsolete form of cauldron.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 144, column 1:

     Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron, / For th’Ingredience of our Cawdron.