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spare-rib
Also 8 spear-rib. β. 7 sparrib, 8 sparib, 8–9 spar-rib.
[prob. ad. MLG. ribbespêr (see ribspare) with transposition of the two elements, and subsequent association with spare a.]
A cut of meat, esp. of pork, consisting of part of the ribs somewhat closely trimmed. Also fig.
α1596Nashe Saffron Walden 48 Let's haue halfe a dozen spare ribs of his rethorique, with tart sauce of taunts correspondent. 1709W. King Cookery ix, Spear-ribs, surloins, chines, and barons. 1749Fielding Tom Jones (1775) III. 113, I have bespoke a shoulder of mutton..and a spare-rib of pork. 1834Marryat P. Simple xxvii, There was plenty of pork,..a roast sparerib with the crackling on,..and pig's pettitoes. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 99 The ribs [of the sheep] are here left exposed at the part from which the shoulder has been removed, and constitute what are called the spare-ribs. 1887Jefferies Amaryllis xii, Pig⁓meat—such as spare-rib, griskin, blade-bone, and that mysterious morsel, the ‘mouse’.
β1607Brewer Lingua ii. i, Traile no speares, but spar⁓ribs of Porke. 1611Cotgr., Cotis, the sparribs of a porke. 1706S. Sewall Diary 24 Dec. (1879) II. 175 Din'd on Salt Fish and a Spar-Rib. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. v. (ed. 4) 449 There was a great quantity of provisions, particularly salted sparibs of pork. 1867Waugh Tattlin' Matty i. 11 They'n bin killin' a pig; an' hoo's brought me a bit o' spar-rib.
b. attrib., as spare-rib feast, etc.
1737Ochtertyre Ho. Bks. (S.H.S.) 90 The sparrib rost peices. 1867G. Easton Autobiog. i. (ed. 2) 18 The Spare⁓rib Feast..took place immediately after the fatted ox had been killed. |