swine-bread
(ˈswaɪnbrɛd)
Also 6–7 swines-bread.
[Cf. G. schwein(s)brot, mod.L. panis porcinus.]
† 1. The plant Cyclamen; = sowbread. Obs.
| 1591 Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 704 Swines-bread, so used, doth not onely speed A tardy Labour; but (without great heed) If over it a Child-great Woman stride, Instant abortion often doth betide. 1648 Hexham i. Herbs, Sow bread, or Swyne bread. |
† 2. Truffles. Obs.
| 1677 Miége Fr. Dict., Trufe, Sow-bread, or swine bread (a most dainty kind of round and russet root). 1696 tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant vi. 68 Tis not so hard a Task to know the delicious Earth-Apples or Swine-bread [orig. Trufes]. 1755 Johnson, Swinebread, a kind of plant; truffles. |
3. Locally applied to the earth-nut or pig-nut, Bunium flexuosum.
| 1888 Sheffield Gloss., Pig-nut, sb. the earth nut. Bunium flexuosum. Called Swine-bread in Inverness-shire. |