Bread v.

[f. BREAD sb.¹] trans. a. Cookery. To dress with bread-crumbs. b. To clean by rubbing with bread. c. To provide with daily bread.

1727.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., I. s.v. Fish pottage, Flowering and breading them after they have been dip’d in beaten Eggs.

1825.  Fr. Dom. Cookery, Gloss. 380. Cutlets, fish, &c. are usually breaded thus.

1879.  Tourgee, Fool’s Err., xviii. 91. They had enough to bread themselves.

1884.  F. Britten, Watch & Clockm., 108. Instead of rubbing with pith the work may be carefully breaded.