| 单词 | gammon stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgammon stick 4. U.S. = gambrel n. 1a. Also gammon rod, gammon stick. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat cambrelc1450 gambrel1547 butcher's hook1596 flesh-hook1596 cambren1656 shamble-hook1688 stage1715 meathook1771 progger1818 gamble1831 gallows1866 gammon1874 1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 312 Then comes one or more men and insert a strong gammon of four or more feet in length, in the hocks beneath the hamstrings of the hinder legs. In the middle of the gammon stick a flat iron hook is adjusted. 1940 Hench Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 626/2 My step father who was raised on a farm near Staunton tells me that ‘gammon’ is the word, a ‘gammon stick’ being used to pass between the heavy tendon and the bone of a hog's hind feet when it is hung on the crossbar. 1982 Barrick Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 626/2 Gammon rod, notched rod used to hold carcass open during butchering. Gammon stick, idem. < as lemmas |
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