haberdine

English

Etymology

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

haberdine (countable and uncountable, plural haberdines)

1. 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

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

Anagrams

• Hebridean