rennet2 (renet)

[Formerly also ren at, ren ate (simulating renatel, as if in allusion to grafting) (= D. renet = G. renette = Sw. renett = Dan. reinette ), Pippins graffed on a pippin stock are called renates , bettered in their generous nature by such double extraction. Fuller , Worthies, Lincoln shire, II. 264. There is one sort of Pippin peculiar to this Shire [Lincoln shire), growing at Kirton and thereabouts, and from thence called Kirton-Pippin, which is a most wholesome and delicious Apple, both which being grafted on their own Stock are much bettered, and then called Renates . T. Coxe, Magna Britannia (Lincoln shire), p. 1457 (an. [ 1720).