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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See reasted.

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Examples

  • "reested" hams; never such making of car-cakes and sweet scones, Selkirk bannocks, cookies, and petticoat-tails -- delicacies little known to the present generation.

    The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

  • Never had there been such slaughtering of capons, and fat geese, and barndoor fowls; never such boiling of “reested” hams; never such making of car-cakes and sweet scones, Selkirk bannocks, cookies, and petticoat-tails — delicacies little known to the present generation.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • Let us cut up bushes and briers, pile them before the door and set fire to them, and smoke that auld devil's dam as if she were to be reested for bacon. ''

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • Let us cut up bushes and briers, pile them before the door and set fire to them, and smoke that auld devil’s dam as if she were to be reested for bacon.”

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • Let us cut up bushes and briers, pile them before the door and set fire to them, and smoke that auld devil's dam as if she were to be reested for bacon. "

    The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801

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