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▪ I. navet1 Now only as Fr.
Also 6 nauet(te, naued.
[a. F. navet (13th c.) ultimately f. L. nāp-um (nāpus) nape n.3, or F. navette (1323) of similar origin. Cf. navew.]
A variety of rape (Brassica napus), a cruciferous plant with a fleshy fusiform root of a sweet taste. Also attrib.
F. navet is applied to the esculent, navette to the oleiferous, variety of rape. Cotgrave defines navet as ‘the small Navew gentle, the least (and daintiest) kind of French Navew’.
1530Palsgr. 247/2 Navet rote, nauette. 1548Turner Names Herbs (E.D.S.) 55, I haue hearde sume cal it in englishe a turnepe, and other some a naued or nauet, it maye be called also longe Rape or nauet gentle. 1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. iii. 96 b, Bread made of nauettes and of chanure seede. 1600[see nape n.3].
1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 601 The French Navet..is a variety of the turnip; but, instead of being globular, has more the shape of the carrot.
▪ II. † navet2 Obs. rare.
Also 5 navitt.
[a. F. navette († navete, 13th c.; cf. med.L. naveta), properly ‘little boat’, f. L. nāvis.]
= navicula.
1467Will of Dryland (Somerset Ho.), Thre sensures of siluer with iiij navitte therto. 1540in V. Green Worcester (1796) II. App. p. v, Item a navett with a spone all gylt. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Navet, part of an Incense-pan, or Censer-box. |