Cheeselep

noun

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Definitions

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

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.

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