"alfet" meaning in English

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      "form": "alfets",
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          "ref": "1981, Edmund Apffel, The Last Days at St. Saturn's, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 40",
          "text": "Miss Twig, head bowed at the far end of the table, continued to eat placidly, but Jacko fixed her with a hard look. \"His rooms, huh? Eh, Twigs,\" he said, \"'tis the alfet for a ewbrice.\" ¶ Dimple gurgled, swallowed, and said, \"And what, Jacko boy, might an alfet be?\" ¶ Jacko grinned. \"Yer tub a boilin' water. For duckin' class offenders.\"",
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        "A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm, used as a form of trial in Medieval England."
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        "(historical) A cauldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm, used as a form of trial in Medieval England."
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