haberdine
English edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch abberdaan, labberdaan, or a French [Term?] form. Compare Old French habordeau, from the name of a Basque district, and French Labourd, adjective Labourdin. The letter l was misunderstood as the French article l’.
Noun edit
haberdine (countable and uncountable, plural haberdines)
- cod salted and dried.
- c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:
- Yet can I set my Gallio's dieting,
A pestle of a lark, or plover's wing;
And warn him not to cast his wanton eyne
On grosser bacon, or salt haberdine
References edit
- “haberdine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.