skirret

• skirrett

From Dutch suikerwortel (literally “sugar-root”).

skirret (countable and uncountable, plural skirrets)

1. An umbelliferous plant (Sium sisarum), cultivated for its sweet edible tuberous roots.

   Hypernym: water parsnip

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 224:

     Nicolas Venette, French physician, refers to skirret, a plant that has esculent tubers, for its high aphrodisiac potential.

2. (Freemasonry) A straight-line marking tool consisting of a line of thread wrapped around a holder.

• “skirret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Striker, skirter, striker, trikers