Sallet vs Swallet - What's the difference?
sallet | swallet |
(historical) A type of light spherical helmet
* 1786 , , A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 11.
* 1602 : , act 2 scene 2 lines 378-383
As nouns the difference between sallet and swallet
is that sallet is (historical) a type of light spherical helmet or sallet can be while swallet is (british) a sinkhole; a shakehole.sallet
English
(wikipedia sallet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) salade, from (etyl) celada, thought to be from (etyl) (although the Latin word is not attested in this sense).Noun
(en noun)- At Hampton Court, sallets for archers on horseback, sallets with grates, and old sallets with vizards: At Windsor, salettes and skulls: At Calais, saletts with vysars and bevers, and salets with bevers.
Synonyms
*Etymology 2
Alternative forms.Noun
(en noun)- I remember one said
- there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter
- savoury nor no matter in the phrase that might indict
- the author of affection, but called it an honest method,
- as wholesome as sweet, and by very much more
- handsome than fine.