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▪ I. rasher1|ˈræʃə(r)|
[Of obscure origin; perh. f. rash v.2 1, but Minsheu (1627) explains it as a piece ‘rashly or hastily roasted’. Cf. ‘Rashed, burnt in cooking, by being too hastily dressed’ (Halliwell).]
A thin slice of bacon or ham, cooked (or intended to be cooked) by broiling or frying.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 11 b, You may commaund his hart out of his belly to make you a rasher on the coales. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 211 Broil'd rashers, that on wide gridirons lay. 1678Dryden All for Love Prol. 34 Drink hearty draughts of ale..And snatch the homely rasher from the coals. 1778F. Burney Diary 23 Aug., She would like an egg or two, and a few slices of ham, or a rasher. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xxi, Great rashers of broiled ham..done to turn, and smoking hot. 1892Spectator 23 Jan. 119 The curling of a rasher of bacon under similar stress of fire.
attrib.1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. iv, Why not the ghost of a herring-cob, as well as the ghost of rasher-bacon.
†b. A slice of some other eatable, intended for broiling. Obs. rare—1.
1634Heywood Maidenh. lost iii. Wks. IV. 142 We will haue a Cherry-Tart cut into Rashers and broyled.
†c. Anything acting as a provocative to drinking, or eaten as such. Obs. rare.
1613Beaum. & Fl. Captain iii. i, Give him but a rasher And you shall have him upon even terms Defy a hogshead. 1629Massinger Picture iv. ii, For a rasher, To draw his liquor down, he hath got a pie Of marrowbones, potatoes, and eringos.
▪ II. ˈrasher2 U.S.
[ad. local Pg. rasciera.]
A red-coloured rock-fish of California (Sebastichthys miniatus).
1882Jordan & Gilbert Syn. Fishes N. Amer. 663. |