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Hawebake

Hawebake \Hawe"bake`\ (h[add]"b[=a]k`), n. Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

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hawebake

n. (context obsolete nonce English) The baked berry of the hawthorn tree, i.e. coarse fare.

Usage examples of "hawebake".

Me were looth be likned, doutelees, To Muses that men clepe Pierides- Methamorphosios woot what I mene- But nathelees, I recche noght a bene Though I come after hym with hawebake, I speke in prose, and lat him rymes make.