Definition of "chitterling"

And some wear lattice caps with three horns, three corners I should say, like the forked caps of popish priests, with their periwinkles, chitterlings, and the like apish toys of infinite variety

a. 1621, John Harland, Shuttleworth Family, The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster, at Smithils and Gawthorpe: From September 1582 to October 1621