alfet

English

Etymology

From medieval Latin alfetum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English alfæt (“fire-vat”), from āl (“fire”) + fæt (“vat”)

Noun

alfet (plural alfets)

1. (obsolete) A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “alfet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• E flat, E-flat, aleft, e flat, e-flat, fetal