= Martinmas beef n.
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释义 | the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > salted meat (14) Martinmas meatc1450 = Martinmas beef n. Martinmas beefc1475 the meat of an ox or cow slaughtered at Martinmas to be salted or smoked for the winter. powder beef1479 ‘powdered’ or salted beef (cf. powdered, adj. 1b); also attributive, as a term of abuse. Martinmas flesh1656 = Martinmas beef n. Irish horse1748 salt beef which is particularly tough, esp. through being old. bully1753 Pickled or tinned beef. Also as bully beef. junk1762 Originally and chiefly Nautical. More fully salt junk. Salt meat, esp. as used as food on long sea voyages. Formerly also in †old junk, †tough junk… salt junk1792 see junk, n.1 3. salt horse1836 salted beef; also transferred, a naval officer with general duties. red horse1864 slang (originally Military). Corned beef. hunter's beef1879 bullamacow1887 Corned beef; bully beef. Jack1890 slang. Horsemeat which has been salted and washed to disguise its taste. Obsolete. macon1939 During the Second World War (1939–45): mutton salted and smoked like bacon. |
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