hastelet

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hasselet, hastlet, hastolet

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman hastilet (compare continental Old French hastelet, modern Norman hâtelet), diminutive of haste (“spear, spit, roast meat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaːst(i)ˈlɛt/, /ˌast(i)ˈlɛt/, /ˈaːst(i)lɛt/, /ˈast(i)lɛt/

Noun

hastelet (plural hastelettes) (Late Middle English)

1. A chunk of roasting meat.

   Synonym: brede

2. (hunting, in the plural) One of thirty-two choice parts of a boar for roasting.

   Synonym: brede

Descendants

• English: haslet, acelet, harslet, hasslet

References

• “hastelet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• David Scott-Macnab (2010) “The Medieval Boar and its Haslets”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎^[1], volume 111, number 3, Modern Language Society, pages 355-366