hastelet

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === hasselet, hastlet, hastolet === Etymology === Borrowed from Anglo-Norman hastilet (compare continental Old French hastelet, modern Norman hâtelet), diminutive of haste (“spear, spit, roast meat”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌaːst(i)ˈlɛt/, /ˌast(i)ˈlɛt/, /ˈaːst(i)lɛt/, /ˈast(i)lɛt/ === Noun === hastelet (plural hastelettes) (Late Middle English) A chunk of roasting meat. Synonym: brede (hunting, in the plural) One of thirty-two choice parts of a boar for roasting. Synonym: brede ==== Descendants ==== English: haslet, acelet, harslet, hasslet ==== References ==== “hastelet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. Scott-Macnab, David (2011), “The Medieval Boar and its Haslets”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎[1], volume 111, number 3, Helsinki: Modern Language Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 355-366.