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sea-beef
†1. Pickled beef used on shipboard. Obs.
1594Nashe Christ's T. To Rdr.**, A prouerbe..as stale as sea-biefe. 1606Dekker Newes fr. Hell Wks. (Grosart) II. 112 Though such kind of Theeuerie bee more stale then Sea-beefe.
2. The flesh of a porpoise or whale. Also locally applied to various food-fishes (jocularly to herring).
1672J. Josselyn New-Eng. Rarities 27 Ling, Sea Beef. [Cf. quot. 1661 s.v. beef n. 2 a.] 1850Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. vi. (1858) 77 The porpoise..is harpooned..and its carcass eaten by the name of ‘sea beef’. |