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ˈbutcher's ˌmeat, ˈbutcher-ˌmeat
Meat sold by butchers (beef, mutton, veal, or lamb) as distinguished from poultry, game, fish, etc.
1632Massinger City Madam i. i, I fear it will be spent in poultry: Butcher's meat will not go down. 1769Burke Pres. St. Nat. Wks. II. 88 Corn, hay, meal, butchers-meat, fish, fowls, every thing [is excised]. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 322 Butcher meat of all kinds has risen in the same proportion. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) II. 515 The consumption of butchers' meat in the metropolis. 1862R. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 302 No people..consume so little butcher-meat as the Chinese. |