knodden

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A form of knead — To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.

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Meanings

verb
  1. obsoleteparticiplepastpast participle of knead

    It bꝛingeth doune floures / it pꝛouoketh neſynge / it kylleth mieſe knodden wyth mele and honye.

    1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “The vertue of whyte Hellebore”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 160, recto
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    After they are hatched you ſhall keep them in the houſe ten or twelve dayes, and feed them with curds, ſcalded chippins, or barley meal in milk knodden and broken[…]

    1665, Robert May, “Excellent Wayes for Feeding of Poultrey”, in The Accompliſht Cook, Or The Art and Myſtery of Cookery, ſecond edition, London: Nathanael Wood, page 457

    See OON for th' tale ov a woman as knooad her bread an' forgeet to heeat th' oon till after id were knodden.

    1891, Tum-O'-Dick-O'-Bobs [pseudonym; Joseph Baron], “Kneyd”, in A Blegburn Dickshonary, revised edition, Blackburn: Express and Standard Offices, page 39
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