sufel, n.n: anything (meat, fish, vegetables) eaten with bread. (SUH-vell)

In Pembrokeshire ‘sowl’ is anything used to flavour bread, such as butter or cheese.

Livre du roi Modus et de la reine Ratio. France (Paris), 14th century. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des manuscrits, Français 22545, f. 72. [commons.wikimedia.org]

milisc, adj: honeyed, sweet, mellow, (of drink) mulled. (MILL-ish)

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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]