#WordOfTheDay for Tuesday, April 15, 2014 maslin \ MAZ-lin \ , noun; 1. British Dialect . a mixture; medley. 2.British Dialect . a mixture of different grains, flours, or meals, especially rye mixed with wheat. 3.British Dialect . bread made from such a mixture of grains. Another question is whether all crops were sown separately. Some may have been sown as a mixture, i.e. as a maslin. -- C. C. Bakels, The Western European Loess Belt , 2009 I sifted the wheat and rye for maslin and mixed the sponge. -- Deborah Noyes, Angel and Apostle, 2005 Maslin is derived from the Middle English word mastlyoun which came in turn from the Middle French mesteillon meaning mixture.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:36:25 +0000