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Rost

//ɹɔst// adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of roast. alt-of, not-comparable, obsolete

    "The secund covrse / Creme off almonds Rost coney plouers small byrds & custard"

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of roust (“strong tide or current”). Orkney, Scotland, alt-of, alternative, especially
  2. 2
    Obsolete form of roast. alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "I love no roſt, but a nut-brown toſte, and a crab layde in the fyre, / A lytle bread ſhall do me stead, much breade I not deſyre."

Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of roast. Early, Modern, alt-of, obsolete

    "1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 82-85, Well Masters if you will eate nothing take away: Come, what doo we to passe away the time? Lay a crab in the fire to rost for Lambes-wooll […]"

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