reest

[ reest ]

verb (used with object)Scot. and North England.

to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).

Origin of reest

1500–10; perhaps <Scandinavian; compare Danish, Norwegian riste to roast

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Other definitions for reest (2 of 2)

reest²

or reist

[ reest ]

verb (used without object)Scot. and North England.

(of a horse) to stop or refuse to go; balk.

Origin of reest

First recorded in 1780–90; dialectal variant of rest¹

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How to use reest in a sentence

Gay Garland had carried my father over long to reest with him at the hinderend.
The Men of the Moss-Hags | S. R. Crockett

British Dictionary definitions for reest

reest

reast

/ (riːst) /

verb

(intr) Northern English dialect (esp of horses) to be noisily uncooperative

Origin of reest

probably from Scottish arreest arrest; perhaps related to restive

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