26th june 2003
heron, hern, hernsew, hernshaw, heronshew, heronshaw, herne, heronsewe, heron-sewe, handsaw, harn, harnser, harnsey, heronseugh, huron, herald, hegrie, skip hegrie, hegril's skip, hegron, aghirone (It.), etc. : the heron, any of a family of long-necked, long-legged wading birds, genus Ardea.
The heyroun schal be diyht [prepared] as is the swan and it come quyk to kechen. The sauce schal be mad of hym as a chaudon of gynger & of galyngale, & that it be coloured with the blood or with brede crustes that arn tosted.
- Utilis Coquinario, 14th cent.