cheeselep

English

Alternative forms

cheeselip
cheeselop, cheeslib, chislock, choslip (dialectal)
keeslip (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English cheslip (“rennet”), from Old English cȳslybb, cīeslybb (“rennet”), from Proto-West Germanic *kāsijalubi (literally “cheese medicine, cheese potion”). Equivalent to cheese +‎ lib.

Noun

cheeselep (plural cheeseleps)

The dried stomach of a calf, used for curdling milk for cheese.
Rennet.
A bag in which rennet is kept.

References

“cheeselep”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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