单词 | roasting beef |
释义 | > as lemmasroasting beef b. With the sense ‘suitable for roasting’, as roasting beef, roasting eel, roasting ore, roasting pig, etc. ΚΠ 1483 in R. Davies Extracts Munic. Rec. York (1843) 162 iij greit roistyng els. 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Funke Actes & Hist. Worlde 1532–50 in tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles f. cclxviii Lo brother, there hast thou a good roastyng pece of an hogge. 1582 R. Madox Diary 10 July in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 151 His wyf..hath every holyday the best of rosting beaf. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health xi. 33 Sage is vsed commonly in sawces, as to stuffe veale, porke, rosting pigges, and that for good cause. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta iii. 46 Rosting Pigs are of most men greatly desired. 1644 J. Osborne in F. B. Tupper Castle Cornet (1851) 92 He sends you a barrel of roasting beef. 1662 H. Marten Familiar Lett. xl. 35 To give thee a piece of roasting Beef, and a shoulder of Mutton. 1729 J. Swift Modest Proposal 8 Buying the Children alive, and dressing them hot from the Knife, as we do roasting Pigs. 1778 S. Chambers Let. 12 Mar. in G. Washington Papers (2004) Revolutionary War Ser. XIV. 156 Buck-Wheat meal Indian meal Roasting pigs Eggs and butter. 1825 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 334 I went to his hospitable board one Sabbath-day;..he had a roasting pig. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 168 The sirloin is the principal roasting piece. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 249 Nearly all south of it is roasting-ore. 1928 Amer. Econ. Rev. 18 236 Consumable goods at retail includes..Roasting beef. 2008 Las Vegas (Nevada) Rev.-Jrnl. (Nexis) 19 Nov. 1 e Guzman is looking for someone who sells whole roasting pigs. < as lemmas |
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