cheeselep

English

Alternative forms

• cheeselip
• cheeselop, cheeslib, chislock, choslip (dialectal)
• keeslip (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English cheslip (“rennet”), from Old English cȳslybb, cīeslybb (“rennet”), from Proto-West Germanic *kāsijalubi (literally “cheese medicine, cheese potion”). Equivalent to cheese +‎ lib.

Noun

cheeselep (plural cheeseleps)

1. The dried stomach of a calf, used for curdling milk for cheese.
2. Rennet.
3. A bag in which rennet is kept.

References

• “cheeselep”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.