Obs. exc. dial. Also 6 kytte. [a. ON. kjǫt (:—*ketwom), flesh, in mod. Icel. also ket (Sw. kött, Da. kød, kjød).] Raw flesh; carrion; also fig. trash, rubbish.

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c. 1220.  Bestiary, 438. He billeð one ðe foxes fel, Wo so telleð idel spel, And he tireð on his ket Wo so him wið sinne fet [= feeds].

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1586.  Scotter Manor Records, in N. W. Linc. Gloss. That no man throwe no kytte or caryon vnto the heighe waye.

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1616.  Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 677. Your raw flesh meate (which amongst huntsmen is called ket).

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1788.  W. H. Marshall, Yorksh. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Ket, carrion.

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1808–80.  Jamieson, Ket, kett, carrion, the flesh of animals, especially sheep, that have died of disease or from accident.

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1893.  Northumbld. Gloss., Ket.

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  Comb.  1828.  Craven Dial., Ket-craw, a carrion crow.

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