dial. Forms: 5 bannenote, 6 banocke, 9 bannet, 7– bannut. [f. ban, banne, of unknown meaning + nut.] A walnut; but in an early vocabulary applied to the filbert.
c. 1450. in Wülcker, Voc., /629. Auelana, bannenote-tre.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xxi. 283. The walnut and the banocke be of one operacyon.
1821. Southey, Life & Corr. (1849), I. 54. The boys were employed also to squail at the bannets, that is, to throw at his walnuts.
1879. in Shropsh. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Bannut.
