† brewen.
Obsolete.
A fowl; ? a kind of snipe.
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snitec725
snipec1325
brewea1475
mire-snipea1525
heather-bleater?1590
jack snipe1664
earn-bleater1754
weather-blate1802
full snipe1824
heather-bleat1824
shad-bird1879
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a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 143 Wodcok..resteratiff þey ar, & so is the brewe.
c1475 Noble Bk. Cookery (Napier 1882) 63 A Brewe sley him in the mouthe, as a curlewe.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. B.iv Untache that brewe.
1605 in Archæol. XIII. 341 These Foules bee nowe in seasone..Brue.
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