English

Noun

hawebake ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete, nonce word) The baked berry of the hawthorn tree, i.e. coarse fare.
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale, Canterbury Tales II94-96

     But nathelees, I recche noght a bene / Though I come after hym with hawebake. / I speke in prose, and lat him rymes make.