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wast, wasmas, n. fruit

etymology: OE wæstm. Ordinarily, the vowel would lengthen before -st, but the short vowel was restored by influence from the plural. Alternatively, it could be that -st did not lengthen vowels before a consonant, and -m was considered a consonant.