Definition of "runnet" []

• Alternative form of rennet. (noun)

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• "We Webcowit and Squaw Sachem do sell unto the Inhabitants of the Towne of Charlestown, all the land within the line granted them by the court, excepting the farms and the ground, on the west of the two great Ponds called Mistick ponds, from the south side of Mr. Nowell's lot, near the upper end of the Ponds, unto the little runnet that cometh from Capt."
• "That night there was fun and plenty of cheap talk in the negro quarters and in the kitchen, for it had been discovered amongst them that a calf's runnet, and not a sheep's, was the article used to curdle the milk for making cheese."
• "Soon after the sheep's carcass was distributed amongst the negroes, and "de runnet," in the hands of old Nancy."