| 单词 | martinmas beef |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMartinmas beef Martinmas beef n. now archaic the meat of an ox or cow slaughtered at Martinmas to be salted or smoked for the winter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > salted meat Martinmas meatc1450 Martinmas beefc1475 powder beef1479 Martinmas flesh1656 Irish horse1748 bully1753 junk1762 salt junk1792 salt horse1836 red horse1864 hunter's beef1879 bullamacow1887 Jack1890 macon1939 c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 62 (MED) Take þe poudre of alym brent or martyn masse beef y-brent & cast þeron. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xvii. f. 161v I haue but martylmas befe, bacon, and suche other. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 51 The flesh which is longer preserued in salt..hanged vp to dry neere the fire..we commonly call, Martimasse beefe. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 315 Under Charles the Second it was not till the beginning of November that families laid in their stock of salt provisions, then called Martinmas beef. 1880 R. S. Charnock Gloss. Essex Dial. (at cited word) Martlemas beef,..dried in the chimney, like bacon. < as lemmas |
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