† hawe-bake Obs.
In the following, usually taken as = ‘haw(s) baken’, baked haws, equivalent to ‘plain fare’; but this is doubtful.
| c 1386 Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 95 But nathelees I recche noght a bene Though I come after hym with hawe-bake [Camb. MS. aw bake, Lansdowne halve bake] I speke in prose and lat him rymes make. |