The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.
A normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating; Synonym of beet.
To turn a bright red or purple colour.
A jelly-like sweetmeat popular in the fifteenth century.
A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
To part with soluble constituents by percolation.