chawdron

English

Alternative forms

• chaudron
• chauldron

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French chaudun, caudun, caldun. Compare German kaldaunen (“guts, bowels”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin calduna (“intestine”), Welsh coluddyn gut, diminutive of coludd (“bowels”).

Noun

chawdron (plural chawdrons)

1. (obsolete) entrails
   • 1624, William Shakespeare, “Macbeth Act IV, Scene I”, in First Folio:

     Adde thereto a Tigers Chawdron,
     For th' Ingredience of our Cawdron

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “chawdron”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)