1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong De la Navette, turnop seed.]

a1798 T. Pennant Tour on Continent (1948) 41 These fields..were yellow with the Navette, a plant like our Charlock; the seeds of which make an oil for burning.

1826 Gardener's Mag. 1 64 In the brassica napus, the navette with a thin root is cultivated for its oil, and the navet for the sake of its root.

1838 W. L. Rham Outl. Flemish Husbandry x. 50 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) (1840) III The navette is not usually planted out, but sown broad-cast and thinned out.

a1851 H. Colman European Agric. & Rural Econ. (ed. 4) 537 A smaller kind of colza, called navette, is cultivated where the land is too light for the larger kinds.

1855 G. Emerson Farmer's & Planter's Encycl. Rural Affairs (new ed.) 349/1 About the beginning of July, and sometimes even at the end of June, the navette, or rape, and winter colza arrive at maturity.

1908 H. C. Smith Jewellery 246 Many of the best-known collections contain examples of these ‘nef’ or ‘navette’ pendants.

1944 Times 21 Mar. 2/2 A flower pendant, the six petals formed of diamond navettes with a single ruby centre.

1949 G. F. H. Smith Gemstones (rev. ed.) xii. 153 The commonest distorted shapes are the marquise or navette..and the pendeloque or drop-form.

1963 Guardian 15 Nov. 10/5 The leading trend today in diamond cutting is the navette—shuttle-shape an enormous pendant navette diamond.

1989 Antiques Trade Gaz. 4 Mar. 50/2 (advt.) A navette shaped diamond brooch.

2002 Chicago Tribune (Electronic ed.) 17 Dec. Then there is the case of Chicago's own 1994 Eisenberg Ice Classic, a bountiful, exquisite piece, a shower of layered navettes (think faceted stones in an oval shape squashed into a skinny, pointed sliver of ice).