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noun
The dried stomach of a calf, used for curdling milk for cheese.
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noun
Rennet.
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A bag in which rennet is kept.
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History
From Middle English cheslip (“rennet”), from Old English cȳslybb, cīeslybb (“rennet”), from Proto-West Germanic *kāsijalubi (literally “cheese medicine, cheese potion”). Equivalent to cheese + lib.
