(idea) by transform Tue Oct 31 2000 at 18:21:55
"Cheese provided on the occasion of childbirth."

Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictonary, 1896-1905.

It was the practice to cut the groaning-cheese in the middle, and by degrees to form it into a large kind of ring, through which the child was passed on the day of christening.

T. Thistleton Dyer, English Folk-Lore, 1884

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