navew
/ˈneɪvjuː/Now rare
noun
Rape, Brassica napus, either (more fully †navew gentle) in the form grown for its sweet fleshy spindle-shaped root or (more fully wild navew) in its supposedly wild form.
Origin
Early 16th century; earliest use found in Laurence Andrewe (fl. c1520–1530), printer and translator. From Middle French naveau from nef + -eau.
- put the cart before the horse
- put the clocks back (or forward)
- put the fear of God in (or into) someone
- put the finger on
- put the flags (or flag) out
- put the frighteners on
- put the hard word on
- put their (or our or your) heads together
- put the lid (or the tin lid) on it
- put the make on
- put the mockers on
- put the question
- put the screws on
- put the skids under
- put the squeeze on
- put the tin lid on
- put-through
- puttied
- puttin'-aff
- putting cleek
- putting club
- putting green
- putting hole
- putting iron
- putting-off