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chessart Also chizzard, kaisart. (Jam.) [Cf. Flem. kaeshorde (Kilian), keeshurde (Plantin, 1573) in same sense.] Sc. = chesford.a 1800 Agric. Surv. Ayrsh. 453 (Jam.) The curd..is put into the chessart or cheese-vat.
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† ˈchesford Obs. exc. dial. Also 7 chesfoord, chesseford, 9 dial. cheeseford. [f. cheese + ford, possibly a corruption of fat in an unaccented syllable; but not certainly explained (can it have been mixed up with the -hood of chessart, chizzard?).] A cheese-vat.1596 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1860) II. 271,...
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