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bread-and-cheese n OED bread sb1 2 d: bread and cheese;
EDD sb 3 (1) for sense 2.
1 In feature name for a
rocky, treeless hill or
point.
[1772, 1840]
1971 SEARY 78 Lane recorded Bread and Cheese Islands, now Bread Island ... in 1772 and
Bread and Cheese Cove at Bay Bulls, a shift name from Thornton's Bread and Cheese Point,
in 1773. JUKES 1840 also recorded Bread and Cheese (Hill) at the head of Calvert Bay.
1951 Nfld & Lab Pilot i, 82 Bread and Cheese rock ... lies close southward of
Bread and Cheese point.
2 In children's name for the
opening leaf, and berry, of the hawthorn (Crataegus oxyacantha).
C 66-8 Children used to eat the leaves and call them the
bread-and-butter leaf, or bread-and-cheese leaf. C 66-9 Bread-and-cheese nuts were small
red berries or nuts that grew in little clusters on a [hawthorn) tree or bush.
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