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Rennet vs Vell - What's the difference?

rennet | vell |

As nouns the difference between rennet and vell

is that rennet is an enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine while vell is the salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.

As a verb vell is

to cut the turf from, as for burning.

rennet

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(wikipedia rennet)
  • An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.
    • Derived terms
    * rennin

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) reinette

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of apple.
    • Synonyms
    * renneting

    Anagrams

    * ----

    vell

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (UK, dialect) To cut the turf from, as for burning.
    • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) (lena) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag.
    • (Webster 1913) ----