Meaning

(archaic or historical) The entrails of an animal, especially when used as a food ingredient; offal..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic or historical) The entrails of an animal, especially when used as a food ingredient; offal.
2. (obsolete) A sauce made from chopped animal entrails.

Example Sentences

The ſecond kind of Letuce, hath crompled leaues, wrinckled and gathered or drawen together almoſt like the Moquet or Chauden of a Calfe: […]

Hovv fare I? troth, for ſixpence a meale, vvench, as vvel as heart can vviſh, vvith Calves Chaldrons, and Chitterlings, beſides I haue a Punck after ſupper, as good as a roſted Apple.

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

Butchers are vvont to buy calues for to kill and ſell their fleſh, for in all creatures, the fleſh of the young ones are much better then the elder, becauſe they are moyſt and ſoft, and therefore vvil digeſt and concocte more eaſie: […] And principally the Germanes vſe the chavvtherne, the head, and the feete, for the beginning of their meales, and the other parts either roaſted, or baked, and ſometime ſod in broath, and then buttered, ſpiced and ſauced, and eaten vvith Onyons.

Fraise: […] A ſtravvberrie; alſo, a ruffe; alſo, a calues chaldern.

Chitterling. […] The small entrails of a hog, from their wrinkled appearance. […] [German] kalbs gekröse, a calf's pluck or chaldron; gänse gekröse, a goose's giblets, called chitters in the N[orth] of E[ngland].

Lyfte that ſwanne. Take and dyghte hym as a gooſe but let hym haue a largyour bꝛawne ⁊ loke ye haue chawdꝛon.

[T]heir blamangers, jellies, chavvdres and a number of exquiſit ſauces, and delicate junkets of all ſorts, ſent up and brought to the board: […]

Word Forms

• chawdrons
• chaldron
• chaudron
• chauldron

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