renneting

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noun

Adding rennet to milk during cheesemaking

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Meanings

nounrenneting (plural rennetings)

plural rennetings

  1. Adding rennet to milk during cheesemaking
  2. A kind of apple; the rennet.

    Upon which account ’tis that the Juice of ripe pulpy Apples, as Pippins, Rennetings, &c. that are of a ſyrupy tenacious nature, do detain in them more of the diſperſed particles of the Fruit that by the Preſſure comes out with the Liquor; […]

    1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Some Observations Relating to Cyder”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC, page 594

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
reinetterennet
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APA

renneting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/renneting

MLA

“renneting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/renneting. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “renneting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/renneting.

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