Dried or desiccated meat. Obsolete. rare.

(See quots.)

Chiefly in South American contexts: meat, esp. beef, that has been cured by being cut into thin slices and dried. Cf. jerky, n.2

Pounded dried meat mixed to a paste with melted fat and sometimes other ingredients, and formed into a cake.

the flesh of buffalo or other game cut up, dried, and crushed into powder to form the basic ingredient of pemmican.

Buffalo meat cut into strips and dried in the sun.

A bag of buffalo-hide for carrying pemmican; also transferred, the pemmican itself.

U.S. Meat that has been cured by being cut into long, thin strips and dried; jerky. Now historical.

Strips of lean meat (of antelope, buffalo, etc.) dried in the sun.

= tasajo, n.

Meat, esp. beef, that has been cured by being cut into long, thin strips and dried. Also with modifying word specifying the type of meat, as beef…

In Chinese cookery: meat, esp. pork, that has been cured with spices, sugar, salt, and soy sauce and dried, popular in Singapore and Malaysia and…