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neat's foot
[f. neat n.]
The foot of an ox, used as an article of food.
[1589? Lyly Pappe w. Hatchet B iv, Why shuld I feare him that walkes on his neats-feete?] 1595Eng. Tripe-wife (1881) 149 Thy tripes were yong, thy neates feete fat and faire. 1620Venner Via Recta iii. 70 The feete of a Bullocke or Heifer, which we commonly call Neats feete. 1652French Yorksh. Spa xiii. 101, I forbid all flesh that is very salt, and fat, Bacon, Pork, Neats-feet, Tripes. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. I. ii. v. 89/2 Such as sell Tripe, Neats Feet, Sheep's Trotters, &c. 1846Mrs. Birch Mrs. Rundell's Dom. Cookery 108 Boil a pair of neat's feet very tender. 1862Draper Intell. Devel. Europe v. (1865) 111 His death was in consequence of devouring a neat's foot raw.
b. attrib. in neat's-foot oil († neat-foot, neat's-feet), an oil obtained from the feet of neat cattle.
1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 445 Three spoonfull of Neatefoot oyle. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. xiv. (1734) 273 It has a proportion of Neets-feet oil in it's composition. 1787Hunter in Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 389 Either hard fat or marrow, or fluid fat called Neat's-foot oil. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 734 The neatsfoot oil prevents the varnish from being sticky. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 450 The feet of oxen..yield, when boiled with water, a peculiar fatty matter, which is known under the name of neat's foot oil. |