| 单词 | mess beef |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmess beef mess beef n. now chiefly historical assorted cuts of salt beef stored in barrels. ΚΠ 1766 W. Gordon Gen. Counting-house 319 45 barrels full bound mess-beef. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xxiii. 365 ‘I've sold the trade,’ answered Wicks; ‘or, rather, I've sold only some of it, for I've kept back all the mess beef and half the flour and biscuit.’ 1964 Amer. Econ. Rev. 54 383 In the 1830's..New Orleans enjoyed a slender price advantage over the northern port cities on mess beef. 2005 D. Dickson Old World Colony iv. 140 For ‘mess beef’, larger cattle slaughtered later in the season were mainly used, neck and shanks were withheld, and the premium meat was cut into regular weights. < as lemmas |
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