cheeselep

English

Alternative forms

• cheeselip
• cheeselop, cheeslib, chislock, choslip (dialectal)
• keeslip (Scotland)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English cheslip (“rennet”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English cȳslybb, cīeslybb (“rennet”, literally “cheese medicine, cheese potion”), equivalent to cheese +‎ lib. Cognate with Middle Dutch kaeslibbe (“rennet”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle High German kǣselap (“rennet, acidic liquid”).

Noun

cheeselep (plural cheeseleps)

1. The dried stomach of a calf, used for curdling milk for cheese.
2. Rennet.
3. A bag in which rennet is kept.

References

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