?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 102^v Rested, rancidus, rancidulus.

1869 Londsdale Gloss. Reested, rancid, spoiled, as bacon from being badly kept.

1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 120 Reested fat bacon was miad inta pies.

1513 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 489 xl reistit swyne of the kingis.

1549 D. Munro in Hume Brown Scot. bef. 1700 (1893) 263 The said stewart receives thir dewties in meill and reistit mutton, wyld foullis reistit and selchis.

1602 in G. Donaldson Court Bk. Shetland, 1602–4 (1954) 35 Skuldit for the stowth of ane reistit scheipe.

1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 10 His Hands were hued like reisted Hams.

c1730 R. Chambers Minor Antiq. (1833) 109 A guid buffed herring, reisted skate.

1786 R. Burns Poems 60 Wi' reeket duds, an' reestet gizz.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 285 Such boiling of reested hams.

1856 J. Ballantine Poems 98 He ne'er wants a braxy, nor gude reestit ham.

1880 W. T. Dennison Orcadian Sketch-bk. 125 His tongue hang oot like a reested tripe.

1951 Folk-lore 62 327 ‘Reested mutton’ as the crofters called it.

2003 T. Morton Further North you Go 39 Just then a tray of flaked brown meat was shoved under my nose by a harassed looking middle aged woman... ‘Here, boy, ait some reestit mutton.’