▪ I. ˈreested, ppl. a. Sc. and north. dial.
[f. reest v.2 + -ed1.]
Dried by heat or smoke.
| 1549 D. Munro in Hume Brown Scot. bef. 1700 (1893) 263 The said stewart receives thir dewties in meill and reistit mutton, wyld foullis reistit and selchis. 1681 S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 19 His hands were hued like reisted hams. 1785 Burns Addr. to Deil xvii, Wi' reekit duds, an' reestit gizz. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xxvi, Such boiling of reested hams. 1894 Northumbld. Gloss., Reested, salted, dried, and roasted; applied to fish, particularly to herrings. |
▪ II. reested
rancid: see reest v.1