单词 | meat rack |
释义 | meat rackn. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > fodder rack cribOE hatchlOE cratch?c1225 rack1343 mangerc1350 heckc1420 hake1551 stand heck1570 hack1612 meat rack1744 hay-rack1825 1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. ii. 27 For this Purpose, some are so careful, as to have their Meat Racks thinly thatched over..to keep their Meat dry, for then it does the Sheep twice the Service of wet Meat. b. A rack used to hold meat during cooking; (also) a rack for storing meat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > frame or rack > for specific food meat hanger1626 bacon-rack1826 meat rack1827 1827 R. Marks Village Pastor I. v. 57 The meat rack exhibited part of a side of bacon. 1879 M. Parloa First Princ. Household Managem. & Cookery 76 Roast meat. Put the meat rack into the baking pan; wipe the meat with a wet towel; [etc.]. 1889 C. Lanman Farthest North xiii. 210 Some of the men..hung the quarters on the meat-rack near the house. 1910 H. Kephart Camp Cookery iv. 46 Hang your meat-rack where it will get heat from the camp-fire, but no more smoke than is unavoidable. 1962 P. Freuchen Bk. of Eskimo i. ii. 47 The meat rack..is a high scaffold of stones on which all the hunters lay their catch so that it is out of reach of the dogs. 2001 Good Housek. Illustr. Cookbk. 15 (caption) Use a meat rack in a roasting pan to keep a roast from stewing in its own juices. 2. = meat market n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel > rendezvous for prostitutes or homosexuals saddling paddock1876 meat market1896 meat rack1958 1958 Der Kreis June 13 Da sind die ewig Ruhelosen, die es Abend für Abend zum ‘meat rack’ treibt, in der Hoffnung, dass ihnen dort ‘das grosse Glück’ begegnen wird. 1963 ‘D. W. Cory’ & J. P. Le Roy Homosexual & his Society 265 Meat rack, a gathering place of male homosexuals. 1993 Guardian 22 July ii. 15/2 Straight clubs are meatracks, where a friendly smile or word can be interpreted as an invitation to grope. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1744 |
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