Rost
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɹɔst/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Rost is a noun meaning (Scotland, especially Orkney) Alternative form of roust (“strong tide or current”).
Meaning
(Scotland, especially Orkney) Alternative form of roust (“strong tide or current”).
More Meanings
- (Early Modern) Obsolete form of roast.
- Obsolete form of roast.
Example Sentences
The secund covrse / Creme off almonds Rost coney plouers small byrds & custard
I love no roſt, but a nut-brown toſte, and a crab layde in the fyre, / A lytle bread ſhall do me stead, much breade I not deſyre.
Their corne they rost in the eare greene, and bruising it in a morter of wood with a Polt, lappe it in rowles in the leaves of their corne, and so boyle it for a daintie.
[…] and care must be had to rost him so leasurely, that he neither burn, nor continue raw: for when the skin seems crup, it is a sign all is rosted, and the Polenta is taken away.
Word Forms
- rosts
- rosting
- rosted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include grinde, grane, pott, crost, meale, funt.
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