† ˈhastery Obs.
[f. OF. haster to roast (see hasté in Godef.), f. haste spit + -ery.]
The process or art of roasting meat; roast meats collectively.
| c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 5, I wylle schawe, Tho poyntes of cure..Of Potage, hastery and bakun mete. Ibid. 38 Here endys oure hastere þat I of spake. 1511 Earl Northumbld.'s Househ. Bk. in Antiq. Repert. (1809) IV. 244 A Yoman Cooke..Who doith hourely attend in the Kitching at the Haistry for roisting of Meat. |