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a 17th century word

Plumbers | 19:37 Thu 16th Oct 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Some friends have obtained a copy of an ancester's will in which the word, "passette or pasfette or passet" occurs. Different spellings due to illegibility of handwriting. Does anyone have any ideas as to what it could mean? It doesn't seem to be in standard dictionaries.

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Up in the air quiz

kitchen utensil quiz

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The Builder

...........looks like someone's left you a tea strainer........LOL

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Question Author

Don't think so, but thanks for the joke!
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Mamyalynne

Could it jusr be a variant on Passeth for example my estate passeth to...???

nytram

could it be a decoraative trimming of beeds braid etc as chambers states

dundurn

Mmmm don't want to disappoint you but the builder could be right !
Have you got a complete sentence in which the word is used so we could get some idea of the context?

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Dear builder, mamyalynne and dundern,

Many thanks for suggestions. Our friend rang up to say that he had deciphered it as pasnett, a variant of posnet, which is a 3-legged cooking pot. This is most likely as it occurred in a list of kitchen utensils including pewter plates etc. An interesting exercise!

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