ˈbannut dial.
Forms: 5 bannenote, 6 banocke, 9 bannet, 7– bannut.
[f. ban, banne, of unknown meaning + nut.]
A walnut; but in an early vocabulary applied to the filbert.
| c 1450 in Wr.-Wülcker Voc. /629 Auelana, bannenote-tre. 1542 Boorde Dyetary xxi. 283 The walnut and the banocke be of one operacyon. 1821 Southey Life & Corr. (1849) I. 54 The boys were employed also to squail at the bannets, that is, to throw at his walnuts. 1879 in Shropsh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bannut. |