mete-awul, m.n: a meat-hook, flesh-hook (a culinary tool used to retrieve large chunks of meat from cooking pots). (MEH-teh-AH-wul)
Anglo-Saxon iron flesh-hook. Northumbria (England), 9th-10th century. British Museum 1995,0901.20. [britishmuseum.org]
enelēac, n.n: an onion. (EH-neh-LAY-ock)
Tacuinum Sanitatis, a health handbook from c. 1400, based on an 11th-century Arab medical treatise by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 9333, f. 22v. [gallica.bnf.fr] (Thanks to Hilmi Anaç for identifying!)
wyrt-mete, m.n: vegetable food, food consisting of herbs. (WURT-meh-teh)
Franciscan Bréviaire. Northern Italy (Milan), c. 1430. Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 0004, f. 455r. [bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr]
ciris-æppel, m.n: a cherry. (CHIR-iz-APP-ell)
A boy stealing cherries from a tree. The Luttrell Psalter. Northern England (Lincolnshire), 1325-1340. British Library, Add MS 42130, f. 196v. [bl.uk]
ealo-wǣge, n.n: ale-cup. (AY-ah-lo-WÆ-yeh)
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brēad, n.n: a bit, fragment, morsel of food; (sometimes but not always) bread. [BRAY-ahd]
croc, m.n: a crock, pitcher, water pot, flagon, small jug. [CROCK]
lēac, n.n: generally, a garden herb, an alliaceous plant; a leek. [LAY-ahk]
Ibn Butlân, Tacuinum sanitatis, c. 1400. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 9333, fol. 22r. [gallica.bnf.fr]
sælmerige, f.n: brine. [SÆL-MEH-ri-yeh]
A container of olives in pickling brine. De materia medica. Turkey (Istanbul), mid-10th century. New York, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.652, fol. 226r. [ica.themorgan.org]
druncen-georn, adj: drink-desirous, drunken. [DRUNK-en-YAY-orn]
A monk-cellarer tasting wine from a barrel while filling a jug. Li Livres dou Santé, by Aldobrandino of Siena. France, late 13th century. [commons.wikimedia.org]
