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Kechen-, Kitchen-fee, Kitchein-fie, n. [North. e.m.E. ky(t)chyn-, kitchin-fee (1485–1614), dripping, and in mod. Sc. dial. also = dripping, supposed to have been so called as being a perquisite of the cook.] a. Tallow. b. Dripping. — 1494 Treas. Acc. I. 249.
Gyffyne for kechenfee [for caulking a ship] bocht be Schir George, and for a caldron to melt the kechen fe in, vj s. 1548 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 141.
That the said candilmakeris … by na kitchein fie nor paynsche tawche in hurt of the occupatioun of cordiners 16.. Sanny Briggs in Sempill P. 46/34.
While tears as fast as kitchen-fee Drapt frae his head
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