meatn.
/miːt/, U.S. /mit/ I. Senses relating to food generally.† 2. A kind of food; an article of food, a dish. Frequently in plural. Also figurative. Obsolete (archaic in later use).In quot. ?1520, humorously used to include drink.Cf. bakemeat n., milkmeat n., sweetmeat n., white meat n.
1.
a. Food, as nourishment for people and fodder for animals; esp. solid food, as opposed to drink (but see quots. c1450 and 1575). Now archaic and regional.See also hard meat n., horsemeat n., white meat n. meal of meat, meal's meat: see meal n.2 Phrases 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > food opposed to drink
meateOE
foodOE
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. iv. 394 He eode on his hus & ðær mete þege.
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke xii. 23 Anima plus est quam esca : se sauel mara is ðon mett.
OE tr. Defensor Liber Scintillarum (1969) xlvii. 295 Non est regnum dei esca et potus sed iustitia et pax et gaudium in spiritu sancto : nys rice godes meta & drinc ac rihtwisnyss & sibb & bliss on haligum gaste.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3213 Hiss drinnch wass waterr aȝȝ occ aȝȝ, Hiss mete wilde rotess.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 135 Ne sculen ȝe nawiht ȝimstones leggen Swinen to mete.
a1250 Lofsong Lefdi (Nero) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 205 Ich habbe i-suneged ine mete and ine drunche.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 898 Mold sal be þi mete for nede.
c1450 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 185 Þi mete schal be mylk, hony, & wiyn.
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xlviii Gyue thy horse mete, se he be shoed well.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 270 It is a very good way, to..kill the list and lyking of a Sparhawke, to feede hir..with liquid meates washt in water.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xlvi. 205 These kindes of lillies are neither used in meate nor medicine.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii Meate of the Gods, Ambrosia, Manna.
1652 Norton's Ordinal of Alchemy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 76 Without Liquor no Meate is good.
1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xv. 305 Who Flesh of Animals refus'd to Eat, Nor held all sorts of Pulse for lawful Meat.
1738 H. Purefoy Let. 17 Sept. in Purefoy Lett. (1931) II. ix. 219 To command what meat you judge proper for your horses.
1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 86 Our guides told us, that the horses could not travel all day without rest or meat.
1794 C. Smith Wanderings of Warwick 66 Sending out women and children, after a hard day's work, to collect meat for the cattle.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 245/1 He had..meat and drink enough.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 709 Meat is then set down to them on a flat plate, consisting of crumbled bread and oatmeal.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxi. 253 When..my father and my uncles lay in the hill, and I was to be carrying them their meat.
1944 Scots Mag. May 89 As lang as he gets his bed an' his mate, he disna bother.
1975 A. Deyell My Shetland 56 Every day I set oot some milk an maet for her.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage 378/1 Meat, fodder (grass, vines, cane stocks, etc) for livestock or horses.
2015 D. Kynoch in Lallans 86 19 Gweed mett sud nivver gyang tae waste.
b. figurative. A means of support or strength; a fundamental, core, or customary requirement, a precursor to anything; a source of enjoyment or gratification. Frequently (now chiefly) in to be meat and drink to: to be a source of support or pleasure to; to be a routine matter for.Frequently of spiritual nourishment, esp. in the Bible, e.g. John 4:32, 34, 1 Corinthians 3:2; see also strong meat n. at strong adj. Compounds 3.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > please or give pleasure to [verb (transitive)] > be a source of intense enjoyment to
to be meat and drink to1533
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter: Canticles & Hymns (1965) xi. 6 Christusque nobis est cibus, potusque noster : & crist us sie mete & drync ur.
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John iv. 34 Meus cibus est ut faciam uoluntatem eius qui misit me : min mett is þætte ic doe uillo his seðe gesende mec.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 27 Þe þridde is for mete þat ilch man agh mid him to leden þan he sal of þesse liue faren.
a1325 St. Patrick (Corpus Cambr.) 616 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 106 (MED) Oure Louerd us vet ene Wiþ delicious metes of heuene.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) John iv. 34 My mete is that I do the will of him that sente me.
1497 J. Alcock Mons Perfeccionis (de Worde) C j b/2 Obedyence is..the meete and comforte of all sayntes.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) vii. 5 Synful mannys lif is the deuels mete.
1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. Fiijv It is meate and drinke to this childe to playe.
1611 Bible (King James) John iv. 32 I haue meate to eate that ye know not of. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. i. 10 It is meat and drinke to me to see a Clowne. View more context for this quotation
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 20 Idlenes is the meate of lust.
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 5 Petty-foggers, and their Meat and Drink, the Litigious.
1758 T. Turner Diary 23 Mar. (1984) (modernized text) 143 Reading and study..would in a manner be both meat and drink to me, were my circumstances but independent.
1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 51 To find its meaning is my meat and drink.
1927 C. Cullen Ballad of Brown Girl 9 O lovers never barter love For gold or fertile lands, For love is meat and love is drink, And love heeds love's commands.
1939 N. Marsh Overture to Death xxii. 254 I'm no psycho-analyst, but I imagine she'd be meat and drink to any one who was.
1977 Lancet 7 May 1018/1 Argument to him was meat and drink.
1992 Financial Times 11 Apr. 4/5 After their sub-standard performance, pollsters must be hoping there is no knock-on effect for the commercial market-research business that is meat and drink to most of them.
c. In proverbs and phrases, esp. one man's meat is another man's poison.sweet meat will have sour sauce: see sauce n. Phrases 5.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > contrariety [phrase] > one man's meat is another man's poison
one man's meat is another man's poison1616
a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. B.iv Swete meate hath soure sauce.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iv. sig. B God neuer sendeth mouthe, but he sendeth meat.
c1576 T. Whythorne Autobiogr. (1961) 203 Þat which iz on bodies meat iz an oþerz poizon.
1604 Plato's Cup sig. B4 That ould moth-eaten Prouerbe..One mans meate, is another mans poyson.
1616 T. Draxe Bibliotheca Scholastica 127 One mans meate is another mans poyson.
a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr3v/1 Whats one mans poyson Signior, Is anothers meat or drinke.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. ix. 117 Why must one man's meat be another man's poison?
1853 E. C. Gaskell Cranford xv. 296 After that she acknowledged that ‘one man's meat might be another man's poison’.
1902 J. Conrad End of Tether xiv, in Youth 370 One man's poison, another man's meat.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 701 In the free, spontaneous self, one man's meat is truly another man's poison. And therefore you can't draw any average..unless you are going to poison everybody.
1997 Publican 27 Jan. 21/1 Judging pubs is a subjective exercise, and I'm afraid the old cliche, ‘one man's meat is another man's poison’ fully applies.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]
meateOE
eatOE
foodOE
fodderOE
dietc1230
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victual1303
victualsa1375
preya1382
feedinga1398
pasturea1398
viancea1400
viandsc1400
livingc1405
meatingc1425
vitalyc1440
vianda1450
cates1461
vivers1536
viandry1542
viander1543
gut-matter1549
peck1567
belly-cheer1579
appast1580
manchet1583
chat1584
belly-metal1590
repasture1598
cibaries1599
belly-timber1607
belly-cheat1608
peckage1610
victuallage1622
keeping1644
vivresa1650
crib1652
prog1655
grub1659
beef1661
fooding1663
teething1673
eatablea1687
sunket1686
yam1788
chow-chow1795
keep1801
feed1818
grubbing1819
patter1824
ninyam1826
nyam1828
grubbery1831
tack1834
kai1845
mungaree1846
scoff1846
foodstuff1847
chuck1850
muckamuck1852
tuck1857
tucker1858
hash1865
nosh1873
jock1879
cake flour1881
chow1886
nosebag1888
stodge1890
food aid1900
tackle1900
munga1907
scarf1932
grubber1959
the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > an article or kind of food
meateOE
meatkinOE
foodOE
repast?c1500
refection1502
viand1527
sustenance1528
victual1558
cate1634
gustable1642
comestible1799
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish
meateOE
messc1300
servicec1450
dish1526
plate1577
plat1766
meat and potatoes1846
M & V1925
meat and two veg1960
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Tiber.) (Junius transcript) (1871) xliii. 318 Ða mettas þe God self gesceop to etonne geleaffullum monnum.
OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Hatton) (1900) ii. xii. 127 Þa se arwurða fæder þam broðrum sæde ge þæs wifes hus ge hu fela cynna mettas þær wæron.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11540 Þatt time þatt himm ȝet wass ned. To metess. & to drinnchess.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 51 A god huet we hedde guod wyn yesteneuen and guode metes.
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. met. v. 2 They heelden hem apayed with the metes that the trewe feeldes broughten forth.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iii. l. 315 He..Maide him gud cheyr of meyttis fresche and fyne.
?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Ciiijv Of all metis in the worlde that be By this lyght I loue best drynke.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Coccetum, a meate made of honie and popie seede.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes The meate we call gellie.
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. sig. M4 Shun Plautus, and old Ennius: They are meates Too harsh for a weake Stomacke. View more context for this quotation
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 200 They must not vse the same knife to meats made of milk, which they vsed in eating flesh.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 2 Sept. (1974) VIII. 417 In discourse at dinner concerning the change of men's humours and fashions touching meats.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. vi. 82 He desired I would let him know, what these costly Meats were.
1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 29 But an thou wilt no goodlier, then must Kay, The master of the meats and drinks, be thine.
1911 L. A. Tollemache Nuts & Chestnuts 79 As if the moral palate of Philosophers were used and inured to..divers meats.
3. A meal, a feast. Sometimes: spec. the principal meal of a day, dinner. Also in various prepositional phrases (mostly somewhat archaic). at (†the) meat, †at meat and meal: at table, at or during a meal or meals. Similarly after meat, before meat, †to go to meat, etc. Now archaic and regional.grace before (also after) meat: see grace n. 11.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [adverb] > at meals
at (the) meateOE
at mealc1400
at tablec1400
at meat and meal1599
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xvi. 60 Þry dagas ælce dæg ær mete þrie cucler fulle geþicge.
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Corpus Cambr. 41) 25 Dec. 2 Þonne hi hira hlaf bræcon æt mete, þonne fleow þæt blod of þam hlafe.
a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 67 Drinke o tiȝe atte mete and noht þer after.
?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 41 Þe spæudrenc ys god ær mete and be[t]ra æfter mete.
a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 237 (MED) Me sceolde ȝief him his morȝe mete þat he þe bet mihte abide þane more mete.
a1225 (?OE) MS Vesp. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 231 Æer þanne we..toðe mete go.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 1217 After mete as riȝt was þe menestraus eode aboute.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xiv. 12 Whanne thou makist a mete ether souper, nyle thou clepe thi frendis [etc.].
c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. A. 348 After the sondry sesons of the yeer, So chaunged he his mete and his soper.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 1363 He sente Unto the Senatour to come..to sitte with him at þe mete.
c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 173 This knyght..is vnarmed and to mete yset.
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 6632 Þou shuldest nat forgete Þe pore man at þy mete.
1425 Ordinances Whittington's Alms-house (modernized text) in J. Entick New Hist. London (1766) IV. 354 Every day, both at meet and soupier, they eat..within the said almes-house.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 756 Whyle we ar at oure mete.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 167 (MED) Whiche vse mony diversities of meites at a meite.
a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 32 At the furst or latter mete.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxiv. 121 Ear they entred into their exercise, and..ear they went to meat.
1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. iii. 117 At sitting downe and rising from meat, they give him thankes.
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 And then they might be at meate and meale for seuen weekes togither.
1611 Bible (King James) Luke xxii. 27 For whether is greater, hee that sitteth at meat, or hee that serueth? View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. vii. 3 Your Soldiers vse him as the Grace 'fore meate, Their talke at Table, and their Thankes at end. View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggg2v/1 He's within at meat, sir, The knave is hungry.
1637 J. Rhodes Countrie Mans Comfort sig. F4 (heading) Grace after meat for the rich and wealthie of the world.
1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 83 If he is spoke to when at Meat, he answers again, which is contrary to the Custom of his Order.
1764 F. C. Sheridan Dupe Epil. An Epilogue's the cordial after meat.
1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 5 Sept. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. v. 128 Those who sit at meat.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise Argt. 138 And presently, the meat being done, He bade them bring him to his throne.
1890 R. Kipling in Fortn. Rev. 47 171 A son of some grain-bag sat with me at meat.
1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iv. 245 He could hardly stand up and walk or make his own meat.
1976 R. Bulter Shaela 53 Dat night efter faider cam in, Dan we aa set wis in ta wir maet.
1981 D. Dunn Deserter in St. Kilda's Parl. 73 We have dined with this stranger, talked at meat With him after the funerals of our fathers.
1993 H. Smart Shoah 55 As he sat at meat He listened for scratching claws On roof-tile or window-board.
II. Senses relating specifically to flesh.
4.
a. The flesh of animals used as food, esp. excluding fish and sometimes poultry, and usually in contrast to the bones and other inedible parts; †a dish of this (obsolete).In U.S. regional use sometimes confined to certain types of meat, often pork (esp. bacon), or beef. In South Asian regional use, often confined to mutton or goat's meat.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat
flesha800
flesh-meatc1020
meata1325
brawn1393
charec1440
flesh-victual1562
flesh-kind1712
carcass meat1948
fleishig1952
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3151 Ilc man..Heued and fet and in rew mete Lesen fro ðe bones, and eten.
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 132 (MED) In Fraunce the peple salten but lytill mete, except thair bacon.
1580 in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1903) 444 b Dinner. To my Master... A boild meat of mutton [etc.].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 55 S. Dro. I thinke the meat wants that I haue. Ant...What's that? S. Dro. Basting.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 11 He Water drinks, then Broth and Herbs doth eat, To live, his Schollers teaching, without meat.
1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins xviii. 190 The Vectigal Macelli, a Tax upon Meat.
1769 J. Skeat Art of Cookery 30 First take all the meat out of the lobster.
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 59 Considering fresh meat, or the muscular part of animals, chemically, I [etc.].
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. Introd. p. viii And, harkye, Bedos..if you eat a grain of meat I discharge you. A valet, Sir, is an ethereal being, and is only to be nourished upon chicken!
1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. 124 Nothing is called meat in these parts but salt pork and beef.
1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 93 Venison is not ‘meat’ to be sure, in our parlance; for we reserve that term for pork, par excellence.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 182 Thickened milk and broth, the latter with the meat of the sheep's head broken up in it.
1881 Daily News 16 Sept. 5/4 Wild ass and antelope meat are also brought in for sale.
1883 C. A. Moloney W. Afr. Fisheries 56 The cleaning, pickling, and drying process only requires ten days, when the fish, sometimes two or three inches thick in the meat, is ready for export.
1902 Dial. Notes 2 239 Meat, bacon always understood.
1903 Dial. Notes 2 320 Meat,..pork. Not often applied to beef, mutton, etc.
1927 Dial. Notes 5 469 Meat,..ham;—used only of the hog.
1933 M. C. Greer & W. S. Hamill (title) Suggested plan for marketing Maryland crab meat.
1972 E. B. Carr Da Kine Talk 138 ‘No meat today, only pork.’..This phrase was seen, within the last decade, on a sign in a small restaurant in Honolulu. Several decades ago, meat was the general term in Hawaii for ‘beef’.
1987 Sunday Express Mag. 2 Aug. (Best of Britain Suppl.) 10/1 The Cistercian monks ate fish not meat, and had fishing rights in the River Dee.
b. Living animals such as are killed for food; a hunter's quarry or prey. wild meat n. originally Scottish game.
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the world > animals > animals hunted > [noun]
preya1250
wildc1275
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wild beastc1325
gamec1330
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chase1393
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quarryc1500
gibier1514
wild meat1529
hunt-beast1535
beasts of warren1539
outlaw1599
course1607
big game1773
head1795
meat1851
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun]
meat1529
victuals1581
animal food1691
the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun]
preya1250
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waitha1400
purchasea1450
small gamec1474
quarryc1500
gibier1514
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felon1735
ground-game1872
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > game > [noun]
venisonc1290
venisona1300
wild breda1400
wild meat1550
game1658
1529 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 9 Nochtwithstanding William Cawder has..coft certane pluveris and vther wild meit incontrare the said statutis.
1550 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 95 The gret and exhorbitant derth of the wyld mete of this realme.
1624 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 390 Great superfluitie of vennisone and wyld meat of all sortis.
1667 in W. M. Myddelton Chirk Castle Accts. (1931) 25 Oct. 7 The man that killed the meate.
1777 T. Anburey Trav. Interior Parts Amer. (1789) I. 214 A dinner entirely of wild-meats.
1804 W. Clark Jrnl. 11 Sept. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 66 A man had like to have Starved to death in a land of Plenty for the want of Bulletes or Something to kill his meat.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. iv. 37 Others—old hunters—had the ‘meat’ in their eye.
1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 198/2 The ram was my meat.
1971 Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Sept. (Guyana Suppl.) p. v/2 They enjoyed the hard work, the wild meat (labba, deer, powis, etc.) and the spirit of comradeliness.
1981 N. Gordimer July's People 69 They both knew the third one had gone off, early, to shoot some meat—a family of wart-hogs had been rashly coming to an old wallow within sight of the settlement.
c. In plural. Different kinds of flesh meat.
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1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 113v That miserable people had stuffed their bodies with diuers sortes of filthy and corrupt meates, as dogges, horsses, rattes, mise, and such like as they could find by any deuise or trauell.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche ix. lviii. 141 Beef and Mutton, and such classick Meats.
1693 W. Congreve tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xi. 220 In Shambles; where with borrow'd Coin They buy choice Meats, and in cheap plenty Dine.
1730 C. Carter Compl. Pract. Cook 1 A good Stock of strong Broth Well made, and good Gravies well drawn off, are very principal Ingredients in the Composing of all Made-Dishes of boil'd Meats.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 110 And took to him wine to drink, and boiled meats.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 4 June 7/3 Within a fortnight the price of meats all over the country will be reduced.
1965 ‘W. Trevor’ Boarding-house xv. 175 There was cold chicken and cold tongue, and ham and pork and other meats.
1987 Z. Tomin Coast of Bohemia v. 180 A funeral meal was laid on, cold meats and fat gherkins.
d. In proverbs and phrases, esp. the nearer (also closer) the bone the sweeter the meat.
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 315v Þe nerre þe bone, þe swetter is the fleissh.]
1778 B. Franklin Writings (1906) VIII. 258 We all agree the nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.
1793 L. Hopkins et al. in Echo No. xi. in Amer. Mercury 25 Feb. 1/2 Yet, 'tis in politicks a maxim known, That those who've had the meat should pick the bone.
1807 C. I. M. Dibdin Mirth & Metre 88 May Jack Ketch bone all who would not let us eat, For ‘the nearer the bone, why the sweeter the meat’.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 515 Meat, the nearer the bone the sweeter the, a..low catch-phrase applied by men to a thin woman.
1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise i. 20 In spite of their poverty and the worry and anxiety attending it, they were not unhappy, and, though poor, there was nothing sordid about their lives. ‘The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat’, they used to say.
1979 ‘Trevanian’ Shibumi i. 38 A little skinny..for my taste, but, like my ol' daddy used to say: the closer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
e. meat and potatoes n. a dish consisting primarily of meat and potatoes, esp. regarded as exemplifying plain and substantial food; (figurative) anything seen as a staple commodity or anything seen as basic or unsophisticated (also attributive, (occasionally) as meat and potato).Cf. bread and butter n. 3a.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish
meateOE
messc1300
servicec1450
dish1526
plate1577
plat1766
meat and potatoes1846
M & V1925
meat and two veg1960
1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 59 408/2 I had no sooner..satisfied myself with what Homer calls εδητυος ηδε ποτητος, and we moderns, meat and potatoes—than I began to suspect the soundness of the scheme.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iii. 15 But the fare was of the most substantial kind—not only meat and potatoes, but dumplings.
1921 J. Dos Passos Three Soldiers i. 10 The men..filed by the great tin buckets at the door, out of which meat and potatoes were splashed into each plate by a sweating K.P. in blue denims.
1949 S. J. Perelman Listen to Mocking Bird 57 ‘It's the meat-and-potatoes appeal—the old pull at the heartstrings—that'll put us over at the box-office.’
1977 Rolling Stone 21 Apr. 78/2 Vocal harmonies are the meat and potatoes of California's pop identity.
1991 Chicago Aug. 31/1 The club's meat and potatoes..remains top local blues performers like Sugar Blue..and Billy Branch who play and sing ‘da blooze’ with elan.
f. meat and two veg n. a dish consisting of (usually roast) meat served with two varieties of vegetable, esp. when seen as typical of traditional or unimaginative British cooking; (figurative) something simple, basic, and unsophisticated, or something indicative of simple and unsophisticated tastes (also attributive).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > [noun] > dish
meateOE
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meat and potatoes1846
M & V1925
meat and two veg1960
1960 J. R. Ackerley We think World of You 83 An almost deserted pub..supplied me with..a couple of pints of refreshing beer, also with a plate of meat-and-two-veg.
1984 Economist 3 Nov. 18/1 Treasury officials paying for their meat and two veg are rightly suspicious.
1989 Q Dec. 194/1 Australia's popular sons Midnight Oil have never met the demands of the local audiences' traditional ‘goodtime’ rowdiness and taste for meat-and-two-veg rock and left it at that.
1999 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 25 Sept. The meat and two veg, the beans on toast, the bangers and mash that keep the body and soul of the nation together.
5. The flesh of a fruit, nut, egg, etc., likened in texture to the flesh of animals; the edible pulp, kernel, yolk or white, etc., as opposed to the rind, peel, or shell. In later use (occasionally) in plural. Now chiefly North American.Cf. nut-meat n. at nut n.1 and adj.2 Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > edible material or part
victualc1374
meat?a1425
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?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 197 (MED) Pirum citrinum is of diuerse kyndes; þe parew is hote & drie; þe mete is colde & moiste.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. 708 (MED) A stanry pere is seyd to chaunge his mete In esy lond ygraffed yf he be.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 245/1 Meate of any frute, le bon.
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. E.iiv The skyn..compassith immedyatly all the contaynyd meate of the egge.
?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 23 A very fayer Orrynge wherof the mete or substaunce wt in was taken owt.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 22 Thy head is as full of quarelles, as an egge is full of meate . View more context for this quotation
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 506 Of the meat of the Nut dried, they make oyle.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 235 Meats of herbs and fruits quickly conceive putrefaction.
1766 Museum Rusticum (ed. 2) 1 lxxxiii. 370 Low or swampy grounds don't answer well for potatoes,..the meat being generally scabby, close, wet and heavy.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xx. 380 The meat of a plum.
1900 Boston Evening Transcript 29 Mar. 7/3 Force through a meat chopper with one-half pound nut-meats, using English walnut meats, pecan-nut meats.
1911 F. M. Farmer Catering for Special Occasions ii. 48 Cut one-third cup pecan nut meats in pieces. Arrange on a bed of romaine, pour over dressing, and garnish with strip of red pepper.
1985 D. Johnson Fiskadoro v. 130 Belinda ate coconut meat off the shell.
1996 S. Mootoo Cereus blooms at Night iii. 213 They..snacked on the pale yellow meat of the gru-gru berry.
III. figurative and extended uses from sense 4.† 7. to carry (also bring) meat in one's (also the) mouth [perhaps originally said of a hawk] : to be a source of profit, to pay one's way; (occasionally) to be a source of entertainment or instruction. Obsolete.
6. slang.† c. meat for a person's master n. Obsolete someone or something intended for a person's betters, esp. as a source of sexual gratification; someone or something too good to be wasted on a person.
a. The human body (esp. a woman's body) regarded as an instrument of sexual pleasure; a prostitute. Also: the female genitals.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > human body as instrument of sexual pleasure
meata1529
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Giiv Countenance. And to the tauerne let vs drawe nere. Conueyance. And from thens to the halfe strete To get vs there some freshe mete.
1611 L. Barry Ram-Alley v. sig. H4v Faith take a maide, and leaue the widdow, Maister. Of all meates I loue not a gaping oyster.
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 142 Your bed is big enough for two, and my meat will not cost you much.
1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. ii. ii. 16 Crabfish eat me, Madam, says he, if I have tasted fresh Meat this twelve month.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xi. viii. 162 This impudent Villain..hath had the Impudence to tell me..that your Ladyship is that nasty, stinking Wh—re..that runs about the Country with the Pretender... Saucy Scoundrel: My Lady is Meat for no Pretenders. View more context for this quotation
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 42 Among the most popular of these dodgment donnas are Madame Landaw..with others, who supply the market with unerring regularity, as there is scarcely a week passes without a fresh supply of meat.
1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 192 A bit of meat, une putain.
1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 265 It would be unbearable, but less so, if it were only the vagina that was belittled by terms like meat.
b. The penis.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > [noun]
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c1564 Buckleye lxi, in R. Hughey Arundel Harington MS (1960) II. 285 The baker he did cram the cockes Wth bread well baked for ye nonce And she her meatie mouth well stoppes Wth pleasinge meate quite free from bones.
1595 Pleasant Quippes for Vpstart Gentle-women sig. B2 That you should coutch your meat in dish, And others feele, it is no fish.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop iii. 37 I'll make you stay your Stomach with Meat of my chusing, you liquorish young Baggage you.
1865 ‘Philocomus’ Love Feast i. 3 Poor puss shall have a treat For the first time of juicy meat.
a1896 E. Field in A. Mackay Immortalia (1927) 8 Behind the whore-house on the hill Where all the boys could get a seat And watch that half-breed brown his meat.
1925 R. McAlmon Rustle of Black Silk Stockings 59 He would sit with his right hand in the left pocket of his policeman..and would babble, ‘My God, Mary, I've got my hand on a real piece of meat at last.’
1967 G. Davis in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 341 Maxine's mother was never home on Saturday mornings, so I kept Maxine's three younger brothers outside while Teddy slipped the meat to her in the bedroom.
1973 D. Barnes See Woman (1974) 94 I've tried the white meat..so I can understand why you might be wondering if the dark meat isn't better.
1994 ‘G. Indiana’ Rent Boy 30 Ride that stiff meat.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 122 Away you mouldie rogue, away, I am meate for your maister. View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 123/1 Do but consider how the devill has crost me, Meate for my Master she cries.
1738 J. Swift Treat. Polite Conversat. i. 30 I would not touch a Man's Flesh for the Universe...that's Meat for your Master.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. x. 292 I'd a taught the Son of a Whore to meddle with Meat for his Master. He shan't ever have a Morsel of Meat of mine. View more context for this quotation
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. ix. 81 He love my Lady! I'd have you to know, Woman, she is Meat for his Master . View more context for this quotation
1837 R. H. Barham Patty Morgan in Bentley's Misc. Aug. 211 She'd ‘have him to know she was meat for his Master!’ Then, regardless alike of his love and his woes, She turn'd on her heel and she turn'd up her nose.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > bring in money
to carry (also bring) meat in one's (also the) mouth1580
to bring grist to the (one's) mill1583
1580 G. Harvey Three Proper Lett. in Wks. (1884) I. 92 Those studies and practizes, that carrie, as they saye, meate in their mouth, hauing euermore their eye vppon the Title De pane lucrando, and their hand vpon their halfpenny.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis Ded. sig. Aiijv I neauer..omitted yt [sc. Virgil's epithet Saturnia applied to Juno], as in deede a terme that carieth meate in his mouth.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. F2 The oldest lecher was as welcom as the yongest louer, so he broght meate in his mouth.
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 241 A gentleman of so pleasing, and ridiculous a carriage; as, euen standing, carries meat in the mouth, you see.
1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xxxvii. sig. Aa2v He bringing meat in his mouth, good store of Gold in his pocket, which he willingly and freely gave me.
8. A dead person, a corpse; a dying person, an intended victim, a ‘goner’. Also in later use: a victim of violence. Originally often with allusion to a corpse as food for worms, birds, animals, or insects. to make meat of: to kill; to defeat decisively or easily. to be a person's meat: to be a person's intended victim or prey; see sense 4b.Cf. easy meat at easy adj. 13b, to make mincemeat of at mincemeat n. 2.
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the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
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ayeteeOE
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to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
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asweveOE
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martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
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adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
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to take the life of (also fro)c1330
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to ding to deathc1380
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to dight to death1393
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kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
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to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
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to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
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to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
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to put away1588
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to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
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feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
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enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
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to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
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to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
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to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
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to put to sleep1942
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to take down1967
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trash1973
ace1975
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 624 Þat lam & wurmene mete.]
1632 J. Shirley Changes iv. 51 If you have cut her up, and left her cold meat, I shall lose my stomacke.
1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West i. i, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 714/1 Poor Bill Bent! them Spaniards made meat of him.
1853 D. F. MacCarthy Purgatory of St. Patrick i. ii, in Dramas of Calderon ii. ii. 174 You should be left dead meat on land!
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It l. 357 Come along—you're my meat now, my lad.
1893 W. T. Wawn S. Sea Islanders 43 At first they treated him well, but during the second night, he had overheard the headmen saying it was their intention to ‘make meat’ of him.
1904 ‘O. Henry’ Heart of West 164 A doctor that couldn't tell he was graveyard meat ought to be skinned with a cinch buckle.
1942 W. E. Johns Biggles sweeps Desert v. 66 The way you snaffled my Hun! I call that a bit thick... He was my meat, absolutely, yes by Jingo.
1965 H. Carruth Nothing for Tigers 51 They also have bodies there, And blood on the paving stones,..dead bodies, old meat and bones.
1973 in F. G. Norris & S. J. Springer Men in Exile 45 I'm gonna blow your head off. I'm gonna make you meat.
1992 New Republic 6 Apr. 14/1 There were suspicions that he was being held hostage in the mansion by his fellow Krahn, who had good reason to think they would be dead meat once Doe was gone.
9. The substance of one's body; flesh; fat. colloquial.Cf. beef n. 2b.
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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > flesh > [noun]
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quick flesha1382
pulp?a1425
substance?a1425
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beef1851
1829 P. Egan Boxiana 2nd Ser. I. 702 Both men, on peeling, seemed prime meat.
1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 27 If I hadn't had so many inches, he'd have been into my meat.
1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 59 Old Tom Jones' yell..gives my meat a slight sprinklin' of ager whenever I think on it.
1906 J. London in Woman's Home Compan. Sept. 7/3 Nothing the matter with him... Badly debilitated, that's all. Not much meat on his bones.
1965 F. O'Connor Everything that Rises 226 He liked women with meat on them, so you didn't feel their muscles, much less their old bones.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters viii. 300 There was a lot of meat on his chest that hadn't yet dropped to his paunch.
10. † a. colloquial. to be a person's meat: to be the right or appropriate individual to carry out or assist in a person's plan, enterprise, etc. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > that which is suitable or appropriate
the very thing1768
ticket1838
to be a person's meat1875
glove-fit1910
1875 F. H. Sheppard Love Afloat 152 Take your time—you're my meat.
1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. vii. 136 ‘Whew!’ I whistles, ‘That's a large order—But I'm your meat.’
1917 A. G. Empey From Fire Step xvi. 103 I gleefully fell in with the scheme, and told Cassell I was his meat.
b. One's speciality or particular field of interest.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > a skill > special
speciality1834
meat1922
thing1936
wheelhouse1987
1922 A. Bennett Let. 14 Nov. (1966) I. 319 It was not everybody's meat, but it was in my opinion somebody's meat.
1922 E. O'Neill Hairy Ape (1923) iii. 29 Say, dis is a cinch! Dis was made for me! It's my meat, get me!
1949 P. Bowles Sheltering Sky i. vii. 60 We'll get there. The Touareg will be just Mother's meat.
1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues iv. 56 ‘I Cried’ was my damn meat, just like ‘Rhythm’ was Lester's.
1972 Dict. Contemp. & Colloq. Usage (Eng.-Lang. Inst. Amer.) 19 Meat,..one's field of interest;..as: Math, that's my meat.
11. colloquial. Matter of importance or substance; the gist or main part (of a story, situation, etc.). Cf. meaty adj. 2.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > [noun] > an advantage, benefit, or favourable circumstance > a benefit > an advantageous or enjoyable thing
meat1886
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > that which is important > most important > part
headeOE
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business end1890
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1886 Cent. Mag. Sept. 701/1 There was meat in the idea, and the professor chewed it.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 7/1 There is a good deal of meat for the actors.
1901 R. Kipling Kim xv. 390 At evening time..she won to the meat of the matter, explained low-voicedly by the lama.
1937 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 41 1025 There was so much real meat in this paper that it was impossible to enter into any long discussion about it.
1951 in M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 36/4 It is not only full of meat, but so interestingly written that I am going to loan it around the store.
1970 Nature 12 Sept. 1092/2 Shift registers..perform the meat of a computer calculation.
1988 Rally Sport Oct. 44/3 The meat of the rally was in seven stages in Kielder Forest, the shortest being just under six miles, the longest 18.
12. Cricket and Golf. The centre of a cricket bat, or of the head of a golf club, etc. Esp. in to hit on (also with) the meat. Occasionally: the centre of a racket.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [noun] > instrument for hitting ball > parts of
face1816
drive1867
meat1909
sweet spot1976
1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 4/2 If you did not take the gutta-percha ball right in the middle of the club (right ‘on the meat’, according to the modern abominable phrase) it declined to go at all.
1925 Country Life 11 July 48/2 It is easy to drive a lob bowler..on the ‘meat’ or drive of the bat.
1959 R. Fuller Ruined Boys ii. ix. 143 Wilkes hit the second ball of the over with the meat of the bat.
1963 Times 28 Jan. 4/3 It was apparent that here was the severest and purest hitter in the game at the pinnacle of his form, tuning up as though the ball were tied to the meat of his racket by a string of elastic.
1975 D. Langdon How to talk Golf 77 Topping, the act of striking the ball on the head instead of in the middle, or ‘meat’.
1999 Times 28 May 27/4 From now on, until I could learn to slam that ball on the meat, all my work would be signed from the sixth bunker at Addington.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive.† meat cupboard n. Obsolete rare† meat vessel n. Obsolete rare
meat broth n.
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1806 Philadelphia Med. Museum 2 377 The food, both in this and the febrile stage, was of the slightest and blandest kind that could be afforded; such as flour-pap, boiled rice, and fresh-meat broths.]
1850 Ladies' Repository Sept. 286/1 She must stay in bed, have nourishing food, and, above all, some good meat broth that very day.
1890 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Meat broth,..the fluid obtained by boiling meat for many hours in water.
2003 Vogue Mar. 430/1 I rushed home to prepare the fabulous deep-yellow noodles of the area,..dressed simply in butter.., plus the barest touch of Parmesan and meat broth, [etc.].
meat can n.
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1849 Cape Town Mail 13 Oct. 2/3 The soldiers, carrying their empty meat-cans, took their way..back to the castle.
1897 Outing 30 284/1 For active service..the two regiments would need to be supplied with..meat cans.
1922 Leatherneck 5 No. 29. 2 Chase the rust from that old meat can; Blanco, polish, shine; it's fun!
2007 D. C. McChristian Uniforms, Arms, & Equipm. Introd. 5 The beleaguered soldiers excavated crude rifle pits using butcher knives, cups, meat cans, and even spoons.
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1610–11 in J. O. Halliwell Anc. Inventories (1854) 75 The meat cubberd, with plate.
meat diet n.
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1564 P. Moore Hope of Health i. ii. 3 A mete diet may sone bee serched out.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 601 The patient..was ordered meat-diet.
1974 M. Fido R. Kipling 115/2 A baby lion..satisfactorily weaned itself to a meat diet.
1999 M. Gold in G. Tansey & J. D'Silva Meat Business xvi. 180 The diet forced on some of the estimated one billion vegetarians worldwide by poverty is as unhealthy as the junk-food meat diet of the poorer members of developed nations.
meat dinner n.
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1776 J. Woodforde Diary 3 Nov. in Parson Woodforde Soc. Jrnl. (1969) 2 4 They were allowed to make a good Meat Dinner.
1850 Harper's Mag. Sept. 520/1 She would often go entirely without a meal, and then she'd slip down to the huckster's, and buy a little white bun for Mary; and I'm sure it used to do her more good to see the child eat it, than if she had got a meat-dinner for herself.
1940 C. Milburn Diary 10 Mar. (1979) 26 To church..then home for the last unrationed meat dinner.
meat dish n.
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a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 729/8 Hic escarinus, a metdysch.
1954 Numbers 1/5 Charlie stooped down over the stove and drew the meatdish off the hot tray.
2006 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 23 July (Herald-Times ed.) f5/5 Become a flexitarian. Swap out one meat dish a week for a veggie plate.
meat extract n.
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1869 Sci. Amer. 11 Sept. 162/4 Liebig's meat extract..contains the soluble portions of beef in a concentrated form.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 342 Beef-tea, meat extracts and essences..should be sparely used.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 392/2 1 meat cube, or 1 tsp. meat extract.
1999 Nature 4 Feb. 404/1 The book says that..Liebig was the inventor of meat extracts, but Lavoisier prepared such tablets in 1783—and he was not the first.
meat gravy n.
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1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Hh4 Cut your Meat into thin slices..fry them with any Meat-gravy.
1888 Scribner's Mag. July 60 But the Greeks are not without their dainties. Rice is much used with meat gravy, making an excellent pilaff.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 80/2 There's a new food product on the market which comes in a can all ready to serve—meat gravy.
2001 M. Hughes et al. World Food: India 144 For sehri (the last meal before sunrise) each family eats different foods, commonly roti, meat gravy, rice, and curds.
meat industry n.
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1892 New Eng. Mag. May 366/2 The Chicago canned meat industry is a very large one.]
1899 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 255 The business talent and splendid organization that have so amazingly developed the meat industry of Chicago [etc.].
1923 R. A. Clemen (title) American livestock and meat industry.
2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xv. 484 The U.S. government's Food and Drug Administration introduced rules demanding that the meat industry abandon practices associated with the risk of spread [sc. of mad cow disease].
meat inspection n.
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1890 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 517 The Meat-Inspection Bill..is to protect the meat of the country exported into other countries.
1946 Liberty 15 June 81/2 Most farmers who raise livestock appreciate the value of the Meat Inspection Service.
1999 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Electronic ed.) 28 Mar. b5 A plant in Nebraska..had the largest recall of E. coli tainted ground beef in the history of the meat inspection program.
meat juice n.
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1874 Harper's Mag. Oct. 753/2 Two kinds of extract are thus prepared, the one intended for human food containing less true meat juice and extractive matters.
1969 E. David in Omelette & Glass of Wine (1984) 249 In the classic cooking of professionals meat juice or broth goes with everything.
2004 Metro 15 Dec. (London ed.) 25/4 Beef with ceps and ‘wasabi-tinged meat juice’ had a worrying butcher's-shop whiff.
meat knife n.
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1831 N. Amer. Rev. July 198 Her butcher [gave her] a meat-knife with a dainty device.
1865 P. V. Nasby Struggles 170 Did they [sc. matrons] not..plunge a meat-knife into their throbbin' buzzums.
1981 Washington Post 18 Oct. 41/6 To the right of the plate, from outside in, are the oyster fork nesting in the bowl of the soup spoon, the fish knife, the meat knife, and the salad knife or the fruit knife.
1995 J. Houston Confessions Igloo Dweller xix. 79 Siutiapik lit two..candles and affixed them with melted wax to the handles of his snow knife and meat knife.
meat pie n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > meat-pie
rafiolea1425
shred-pie1573
Florentine1579
marrowbone pie1595
marrow pie1598
meat pie1607
mutton pie1607
olive pie1615
venison piea1616
flesh-pie1616
veal (and ham) piea1625
godiveau1653
lumber-pie1656
mermaid pie1661
umble-pie1663
humble piea1665
trotter-pie1693
stump pie1695
mugget pie1696
pot-pie1702
squab-pie1708
pork pie1723
steak pie1723
Perigord pie1751
pasticcio1772
fidget pie1790
muggety pie1800
numble pie1822
Florentine pie1823
pastilla1834
kidney-pie1836
beef-steak pie1841
stand pie1872
Melton Mowbray1875
timbale1880
pâté en croûte1929
tourtière1953
growler1989
1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine i. 4 My fathers layde in dust his Coffin and he is like a whole-meate-pye, and the wormes will cut him vp shortlie.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1773 I. 393 [Johnson:] I generally have a meat pye on Sunday.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xl. 398 He..retires to the servants' hall to regale on cold meat-pie and ale.
1981 Oxf. Hist. Austral. Lit. 420 In some poems he uses a dramatic voice which is as Australian as a meat pie.
meat platter n.
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1863 ‘G. Hamilton’ Gala-days 75 I decided upon a meat-platter.
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 July 7/1 (advt.) Large Meat Platters, regular value 60 c. July Clearance each 35 c.
1981 Cook's Mag. Nov. 52/1 A potato chain..can be deep fried and used to add flourish to a meat platter.
meat pudding n.
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1841 Southern Literary Messenger Nov. 775 They have no meat, except on Sunday, when a meat pudding is made.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 158/2 For supper there is a sandwich, a meat pudding, or a ‘trotter’.
1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 61 A haggis is a meat pudding in England also.
meat salesman n.
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1851 in Illustr. London News (1854) 5 Aug. 119/2 Meat-salesman.
1868 Ladies' Repository Aug. 113/1 The Smithfield Market Commission opened the eyes of the public to the frauds committed by the meat salesmen.
1994 W. Shaw Spying in Guru Land (1995) iv. 114 Robert D'Aubigny,..a Sussex meat salesman.
meat sauce n.
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1854 Biblical Repertory July 413 Fifteen varieties of soups..; twelve kinds of meat-sauce; all kinds of pastry.
1994 Food & Wine Oct. 71 (caption) Northern Italian lasagna layers green and yellow pasta with meat sauce, mozzarella, Parmesan and seasoned white sauce, known as balsamella.
meat saw n.
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1862 N.Y. Herald 8 July 1/5 By sawing down with a meat saw a quite good sized tree, they procured a boat and started in search of freedom.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1416/2 Meat-saw, a saw with a thin blade strained in an iron frame, used by butchers.
1921 H. Williamson Beautiful Years 48 Jack was attempting to separate with a rusty meat-saw the seasoned branch of an ash tree into sections of a size convenient for burning as logs.
1986 L. Erdrich Beet Queen i. 19 I heard the rhythmical whine of meat saws, slicers, the rippling beat of fans.
1996 P. Attanasio Donnie Brasco (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 113 (stage direct.) An array of knives—breaking knives, steak knives, boning knives, meat saw, shears.
meat solution n.
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1874 Amer. Jrnl. Pharm. 1 Sept. 437 The view of Dr. Schacht concerning digestion have been confirmed by Professor Leube (the inventor of Leube's meat solution) of Jena.
1914 J. Goldberger Some New Cholera Selective Media in Hygienic Lab. Bull. 91 (U.S. Public Health Service) Dec. ii. 20 Esch describes a second modification in which he replaces the alkaline blood of the Dieudonné medium with an alkaline meat solution.
2011 K. V. Oster Compl. Guide Preserving Meat, Fish, & Game ix. 212 Leaner meats are well suited to the canning process because there will be less fat in the meat solution.
meat stock n.
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1873 C. E. Beecher Miss Beecher's Housekeeper 38 (heading) Dried Bean or Pea Soup with Meat Stock.
1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 53 Half-a-pint of any kind of meat-stock.
1972 P. Eve European's Cook Bk. 130 Minestra and Minestrone. The basic difference between these two soups is that the former is all vegetable whereas the Minestrone is made with meat stock.
1999 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Electronic ed.) 4 Sept. 27 Add chili pepper, chili powder, salt and enough meat stock to cover.
meat supper n.
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1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. ix. sig. Qqqq.viii/2 It [sc. the Lord's Supper] farr differeth from our ordinarie meate suppers..for yt it is specially instituted by the sonne of God.
1732 T. Short Proposals for printing Hist. Mineral Waters Introd. 6 A Meat Supper brings to my Mind, that many are no less negligent in keeping seasonable Hours, in going to Bed and rising.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat i. 12 And a light meat supper at ten.
1928 E. Power tr. Le Ménagier de Paris 153 (heading) Meat Supper in Four Courses.
2007 J. H. Hirsch Cheating Destiny i. 9 ‘The key to a meat supper is portion control,’ she notes.
meat tin n.
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1851 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 195 Traces..found..consisted of fragments of clothing, preserved meat tins, and scraps of papers.
1889 Cent. Mag. Apr. 909/2 They say that he sometimes fills an old meat-tin with water in anticipation of a long march.
1962 A. J. Marshall & R. Drysdale Journey among Men 56 Beside the opener was a notice that requested the rare customer..to leave his payment in the meat tin.
meat trade n.
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1852 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art & Sci. Apr. 548/2 Some of our own hidden devices in the meat trade are..revolting.
1888 (title) Meat trades journal.
1960 A. Clarke Later Poems (1961) 74 Our meat-trade Respected.
1998 Meat Trades Jrnl. 13 May 15/1 A range of self-drive refrigerated vans for short term and spot hire to the meat trade.
meat-trough n.
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a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 277 To fatten young Chicken in a wonderful degree... Their drink must be onely Milk, in another little trough by their meat-trough.
1834 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 21 July Meat trough lined with lead.
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 64 I would have been capable of going into the street and knocking down any little butcher's boy who refused peaceably to deliver up to me the contents of his wooden meat-trough.
1962 Brit. Patent 909,778 10/1 A machine for preparing boneless meat masses.., by stuffing or encasing the meat masses in flexible casings.., comprising a work table having a longitudinal meat trough..open at least at one end.
2016 D. M. Hoffman 100-Knuckled Fist 6 The customer reaches the cheese display, just before the meat troughs where Wyatt saws.
meat tub n.
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1779 E. Parkman Diary (1899) 171 We are unhappily low in ye Meat Tub.
1864 E. Morris Ten Acres Enough xii. 98 They were capital things with which to pack a meat-tub at Christmas, saving money from the butcher.
1926 Z. N. Hurston in Messenger Sept. 261/1 She follows this angel-on-earth to his meat tub and supervises the cutting.
1990 Accepted Meat & Poultry Equipm. (U.S. Dept. of Agric.: FSIS Directive 11220.1) 86/1 Smokehouse Truck..Meat Tub..Meat Truck.
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?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 80v A Mete vessell, escale.
b. Objective.
(a) † meat keeping n. Obsolete rare† meat reiver n. Obsolete rare
meat-chopper n.
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1832 Genesee (Rochester, N.Y.) Farmer 7 Jan. 4 From thence they are fed to my stock, being first chopped up with a snick (Dutch meat chopper), spade.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 295 In the course of the argument..meatchoppers,..were resorted to.
1990 N.Y. Mag. 25 June 22/2 Disney isn't letting the movie's fate ride on the profile of the tall man with a jutting meat-chopper chin, grim mouth, and beaky nose.
meat cleaver n.
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1856 Putnam's Monthly Mag. May 485/2 Presenting him a villainous-looking pistol, with an enormous bowie-knife attachment, the size and shape of a meat-cleaver.
1940 Life 30 Sept. 86 So that George would never squeal again, he was murdered..with a meat cleaver and an ice pick by a group from Murder, Inc.
1987 N. Blei Neighbourhood xxxvi. 252 Darvin..begins emptying a..bag of tools of his art—an ax, a pick, two long sharp knives, a meat cleaver, something called a ‘spaga’, which serves as a needle.
meat-eater n.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat > flesh- or meat-eater
flesh-vourer1533
meat-man1606
flesh-eater1616
sarcophagus1617
sarcophagist1699
meat-eater1849
sarcophage1852
non-vegetarian1907
meater1920
carnivore1961
non-veggie1984
1849 Sci. Amer. 11 Aug. 370/2 I am not much of a meat eater, yet I presume I have consumed about eight ounces a day.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 557 The worst instances are found..in large meat-eaters and topers.
1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) II. ii. v. 60/1 Primates are essentially fruit-eaters.., with guts showing proportions intermediate between the dominating small intestines of meat-eaters (faunivores) and the much enlarged stomach or caecum and colon of leaf-eaters.
meat-eating n. and adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [adjective] > eating flesh
flesh-eating1592
meat-eatingc1598
flesh-consuming1603
flesh-devouring1609
sarcophagal1614
sarcophagous1755
cannibalistic1827
creatophagous1850
creophagous1881
non-vegetarian1883
non-veggie1985
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating specific substances or food > [noun] > eating flesh or meat
sarcophagy1650
carnivorousness1856
carnivory1901
meat-eating1905
c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. iii. 168 In the forme of youre meate eating be nather unciuill..nor affectatlie mignarde.
1853 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 4 154 The Americans are notoriously a meat eating people.
1905 Vegetarian Messenger Jan. 14 Vegetarianism v. meat-eating.
1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah ii. 77 One of his sons invented meat-eating.
1988 Man Mar. 27 It is the second model which is exemplified by the vegetarian and meat-eating deities in the Kallar Siva temple.
meat freezer n.
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1909 Daily Chron. 2 Nov. 5/4 Australian globe-trotters, meat-freezers, financiers.
1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) xxxviii. 356 A large walk-in meat freezer.
meat freezing n. and adj.
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1899 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 794/1 There is a..trust..against the sheep farmers, among the great meat-freezing exporters.
1989 B. W. Berry & K. F. Leddy (title) Meat freezing: a source book.
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 10 Almery of mete kepynge, or a saue for mete, cibutum.
meat-monger n.
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1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 285 I maruaile why they [sc. tortoises] are used in this age, or desired by Meat-mongers.
1858 P. J. Bailey Age 21 An eminent cats'-meat-monger in my neighbourhood.
1986 D. Reisman Economics of Alfred Marshall 214 Your High street meat-monger.
meat packer n.
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1869 Littell's Living Age 4 Dec. 619/2 The Texas meat packers are giving this salt a trial this season.
1903 E. Johnson Amer. Railway Transportation 131 The large meat-packers..own their own cars.
1973 Guardian 23 Feb. 18/1 I finally got a job as a meat packer on £18 a week.
1982 W. A. Kretzschmar in Amer. Speech 57 300 He omits..those terms of general approbation most readily identified as slang by a popular audience: cool, neat, fine, sharp, keen, prime and choice (from meatpacker's argot).
meat-packing n. and adj.
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1857 Sci. Amer. 11 July 347/1 High testimony to its utility and efficiency has been given by persons of long experience in the meat-packing business.
1891 J. J. Flinn Chicago 330 Meat packing is the oldest of Chicago's industries.
1961 W. P. Keller Canada's Wild Glory ii. 53 After all, sweeping floors in a meat-packing plant was hardly the sort of thing to shout about.
1992 New Yorker 23 Mar. 88/1 Barbara Kopple's documentary ‘American Dream’, about a strike in a Minnesota meat-packing plant, is a lucid and unfussy piece of movie journalism.
meat processing n.
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1948 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 21 53/2 The British..together with capitalists of the United States,..also dominated the meat-processing business [in Argentina].
1957 Jrnl. Appl. Bacteriol. 20 286 For meat processing, two different types of treatment have been envisaged. One is complete sterilization... The other process..is becoming known as ‘pasteurization’.
1989 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 26 May 1 Arbroath's Enterprise Zone status could see it become northern Europe's premier meat processing centre.
meat processor n.
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1933 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 6 218 The problem of meat processors and distributors is to find the price level at which the total available volume will move into consumption.
1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering iii. 50 All meat processors engaged in interstate, interprovincial or foreign trade are required to maintain government inspection.
1987 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 22 Oct. (Murray Grey Anniv. Suppl.) 3/1 Local trade consumption has increased, and commercial operators inform us that their results in marketing direct to the meat processor, have been financially rewarding.
meat producer n.
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1898 J. R. Procter in N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 294 Meat-producers..will realize that exclusion from Asian markets will be disastrous to their best interests.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 2/1 The consumer is called upon to pay £5,600,000, in order that..the Colonial meat-producer may receive the negligible gift of £350,000.
1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth vi. 202 Animals cannot show their full potentialities as meat-producers if kept in unfavourable nutritive conditions.
1992 Farmers Guardian 7 Aug. 2/2 NZ Meat Producers' Board..officials have held a series of meetings with English, Welsh and Scottish producers and sheep industry leaders during recent months.
meat production n.
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1885 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 353 There is hope in the increase of..meat-production.
1928 J. Hammond in Zeitschr. Induktive Abstammungs u. Vererbungslehre 46 70 In the investigation of inheritance problems concerning economic qualities such as meat production, difficulty is experienced in knowing what are the characters which form the basis of the quality.
1992 Economist 30 May 137/2 In the former Soviet Union the decline in meat production and the shortage of hard currency are likely to reduce coarse-grain imports.
meat ration n.
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1849 Commerc. Rev. South & West Nov. 381 Those [slaves] who choose to do so, can commute a part of the meat rations for an equivalent in molasses.
1928 W. H. Beveridge Brit. Food Control x. 230 The wealthy classes in particular suffered from the reduction in the meat ration.
1994 Daily Mail (Nexis) 11 Nov. 9 It was linked not only to ‘pie’ but to ‘war’ and the hundred different ways of cooking it, as a supplement to meagre meat rations, which the war made necessary. Everyone was grateful for a rabbit in the pot.
meat rationing n.
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1918 Times 7 Feb. 3/1 Should the currency coupon become the basis of meat rationing, it is probable that [etc.].
1995 Newsday (Electronic ed.) 27 Sept. b25 A popular recipe during World War II's meat rationing was Spam kebobs.
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a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 223 Inopportoun askaris of Yrland kynd And meit revaris.
(b)
meat-free adj.
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1906 Daily Mail 30 Nov. 10/3 Mr. Eustace Miles invaded an atmosphere redolent of carnivorous cookery and lectured on the virtues of a meat-free diet.
1987 Lean Living Feb.–Mar. 21/4 The trend is increasingly towards a healthy lifestyle, meat-free.
2011 P. McCartney et al. in A. Rigg Meat Free Monday Cookbk. (Foreword) 7 It's so easy for people to say ‘Well you would say that, wouldn't you?’ whenever a discussion of a meat free lifestyle takes place.
meat-hungry adj.
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1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 73 Crowds of meat-hungry Mashunas.
1983 N. A. Chagnon Yanomamō (1992) iii. 140 Some are physically hot and some are naiki—meat hungry and cannibalistic.
meat-producing adj.
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1857 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 Nov. 340/2 The yellow grain and meat-producing turnip are profitably supplanting the rustling reeds and mallows of the marsh.
1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth iii. 90 Meat-producing animals.
1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock x. 135 It became a meat-producing animal rather than solely a wool-provider.
c. Instrumental.
meat-fed adj.
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1840 G. H. Calvert Cabiro i. 20 The beings of the brain Like those whose meat-fed hands we daily clasp,–By slow degrees grow on the mind.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 51 Our five-meal, meat-fed men.
1993 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90 2459 Longitudinal section of corpus allatum of a 7-day-old meat-fed female.
d. Similative.
meat-faced adj.
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1918 J. Joyce Ulysses Nestor in Little Rev. Apr. 41 The meatfaced woman, a butcher's dame.
1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Dec. 1420/3 His wife is being bedded by Hector, a meat-faced neighbour.
2006 Texas Rev. Winter iii. 58 A policeman, a meat-faced bruiser with a gut and a gun, heaved himself into the black-and-white.
meat-pink adj.
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1939 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Journey to War i. 31 Hairy, meat-pink men.
1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 133 They played with real Spam tins—tanks, tank-destroyers, pillboxes, dreadnoughts deploying meat-pink, yellow and blue about the dusty floors.
C2. † meat ambry n. Obsolete a cupboard for keeping food.† meat butter n. Scottish Obsolete high quality butter; cf. sense 12.† meat cloth n. Obsolete a tablecloth.† meat failer n. [compare fail v. 7] Obsolete rare a person who lacks food, an undernourished or emaciated person.† meat-fellow n. Obsolete rare a companion at a meal, a guest.† meat fere n. Obsolete rare = meat-fellow n.† meat fish n. Obsolete fish suitable for use as food (cf. sense 12); spec. (Scottish), fresh fish sold or distributed for immediate use as food.† meat-form n. Obsolete rare a bench on which to sit at meals.† meat fruit n. Obsolete rare the starchy fruit of the breadfruit tree, Artocarpus altilis.† meat giver n. Obsolete a giver of food, a hospitable person.† meat giving n. Obsolete rare the providing of meals.† meat grace n. Obsolete rare a grace said before or after meals.† meat hanger n. Obsolete rare (probably) a hanging shelf for a larder.† meat-list n. Obsolete rare = meat-lust n.† meat-lust n. Obsolete rare appetite for food.† meatnithing n. [compare Old Icelandic matníðingr] Obsolete rare a person who gives food grudgingly.† meat-pipe n. Obsolete the oesophagus.† meat place n. Obsolete rare a place for eating, or a refectory.† meat rocker n. Obsolete a type of two-handled mincing knife.† meat stomach n. Obsolete rare a digestive system suited to eating meat.† meat taking n. Obsolete rare eating.† meat-time n. [compare Old English metetīd] Obsolete = mealtime n.† meat train n. Obsolete rare a party of men, horses, etc., conveying meat or other provisions.† meat vat n. [compare Old English metefæt] Obsolete rare an airtight container in which meat is cured.† meat-washing adj. Medicine Obsolete rare (of faeces) having the appearance of a reddish fluid containing small flesh-like lumps (as in severe dysentery).† meat-while n. Obsolete = mealtime n.† meat whitch n. Obsolete rare a chest or box for storing meat.† meat-whole adj. Obsolete rare having a good appetite for food.† meat-will n. Obsolete rare a craving for food.† meat-worth adj. Scottish Obsolete rare = meatlike adj. 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > ventilated cupboard > for meat
meat whitcha1425
meat ambry1457
gardeviance1459
keep1617
meat house1710
meat-screen1781
meat safe1782
1457 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 119 Alssua a met amri and wessal ammari.
a1500 Promptorium Parvulorum (BL Add. 37789) 335 Metesytel [sic], to kepe in mete [?a1475 Winch. Mete fytyl, a1500 King's Cambr. metfyttyl or almary], Cibutum.
1548 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 136 Ane meit almarye to xiiiis.
1641 Edinb. Test. LX. f. 15, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mete-almery Ane greit meit almerie.
meat analogue n. a manufactured foodstuff designed to resemble meat in appearance and taste.
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1966 Food Engin. Apr. 58/1 Textured meat analogs are specially tailored from spun soy proteins..that are spinneret-extruded into monofilaments. These..are then blended with supplementary ingredients, [etc.].
1991 Vegetarian Times Jan. 12/1 Meat look-alikes, also called fake meats or meat analogs really fit the bill.
meat ant n. any of several carnivorous Australian ants of the genus Iridomyrmex, esp. the large reddish-purple species I. purpureus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Irydomyrmex
mound ant1879
meat ant1900
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Irydomyrmex > iridomyrmex detectus (meat ant)
mound ant1879
meat ant1900
1900 Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Apr. (Red Page) On the nest of a colony of these meat ants I placed a large green caterpillar.
1952 Coast to Coast 101 The ant-lion had seized the meat-ant by one leg.
1991 Sci. Amer. Feb. 86/2 We have witnessed..a vulnerable pouch young, after being attacked by meat ants, release its grip from the mother and slip out of the protective pouch.
meat bag n. slang (chiefly U.S.) the stomach.
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1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 716/2 Dick was as full of arrows as a porkypine: one was sticking right through his cheek, one in his meat bag.
1850 L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah iii. 46 I bet I make you eat dogmeat..and you'll say it's..the best you ever hid in your meatbag.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 75/2 Meat bag, the stomach (eatmay agbay).
meat-bird n. North American regional the grey jay, Perisoreus canadensis, a long-tailed jay with dark grey upperparts and a whitish face.
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1860 J. G. Cooper Zool. Rep. (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific XII) ii. 216 It [sc. the Canada jay] seems to be well known in the country by the name of ‘meat bird’, as it will watch hunters and pick at the deer or other meat they hang in the woods.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) 220 Three large slate-colored birds of the jay genus (Garrulus Canadensis), the Canada-jay, moose-bird, meat-bird, or what not, came flitting silently and by degrees toward me.
1927 E. H. Forbush Birds of Mass. II. 384 Canada Jay..grease-bird; meat-bird; camp robber; meat hawk.
1976 D. Blood Rocky Mountain Wildlife i. ii. 158 It has been aptly said that the gray jay has more names than a debt collector: whiskey jack, Canada jay, camp robber, moosebird, meat-bird, and so on.
meat biscuit n. now rare a biscuit made with concentrated meat.
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1850 Sci. Amer. 23 Mar. 213/1 Some time since we noticed a new kind of Meat Biscuit, or ‘Portable Desiccated Soup Bread’, invented by Mr Gail Borden, Jr.
1905 W. A. Simmonds Pract. Grocer III. 216 ‘Meat-biscuits’..are an American invention, and are convenient for military, shipping, and travelling purposes. They are made from a meat-broth prepared [etc.].
1994 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 81 1297/2 ‘Meat biscuits’..patented in 1851 by Gail Borden, who also invented condensed milk.
meat block n. a block of wood on which meat is cut up.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > meat-block, board, or table
meat-table1381
stock1488
butcher's block1577
butcher's tray1651
carving-board1675
meat-boarda1827
meat block1838
1838 E. Flagg Far West II. 59 Mr. W...was on the stump, in shape of a huge meat-block at one corner of the market-house.
1951 J. Jones From Here to Eternity xxxi. 460 He wrenched the cleaver out of the meatblock and advanced on Warden like a slow thunder storm.
1989 Independent 21 Mar. 3/2 [The report] criticised the ‘poor and unhygienic’ state of the meat block.
meat breakfast n. a breakfast that includes a meat dish.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > breakfast or morning meal
forme-metea1175
breakfast1463
disjune1491
jentation1599
jenticulation1658
meat breakfast1728
English breakfast1773
déjeuner1787
dejeune1788
fork-breakfast1812
tea-breakfast1825
cooked breakfast1848
chota hazri1863
hunt-breakfast1877
petit déjeuner1879
brekker1889
brekkie1904
Continental breakfast1911
prayer breakfast1930
Oslo breakfast1937
fry1959
1728 W. Byrd in William & Mary Q. (1945) 2 67 They reacht Col. Bollings time enough to eat a hearty meat breakfast.
1749 Duke of Newcastle Let. 25 Dec. in Corr. Dukes Richmond & Newcastle (1984) 294 Linky & Sussex made a good Meat Breakfast here this Morning.
1830 S. T. Coleridge Let. 1 Dec. (1971) VI. 849 I have been better—able to eat my meat breakfast.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xl. 186 A meat breakfast in the morning and dinner in the middle of the day.
2008 J. Deutsch & R. D. Saks Jewish Amer. Food Culture (2009) iv. 52 Jewish Americans rarely, if ever, have a meat breakfast.
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1722 in Sc. National Dict. at Meat To pay his lord ‘three stone of meat butter’.
a1795 G. Low Fauna Orcadensis (1813) 3 Cows are kept in large numbers, on account of the rents of the land, part of which is paid in butter, which is distinguished into what is here called meat and grease-butter.
meat card n. now historical a card consisting of coupons entitling the holder to meat rations.Quot. 1833 refers to cards given to voters by election candidates as bribes.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > by government or authority > card or coupon of entitlement
ration book1845
meat card1870
ration card1870
ration ticket1871
food card1896
sugar card1917
coupon1918
meat coupon1918
clothing book1943
clothing coupon1943
1833 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 1/2 The first witness was Mr. Henry Chapman... I saw no ‘convertible’ or ‘negotiable’ cards—‘money’ or ‘meat’ cards. I had no card of that sort.]
1870 Food Jrnl. Dec. 622 The restaurateurs are compelled to ask for their customers' ‘meat card’.
1918 Statutory Rules & Orders No. 412. 1 in Parl. Papers Cd. 8974–105 XX. 277 Each coupon on an ordinary (adult's) Meat Card represents 5d. worth of pork.
2015 J. Swan Chelmsford in Great War xi. 202 The definition of ‘meat’ was very broad... 20,638 adults and 4,623 children registered for meat cards.
meat-chamber n. now historical a refrigerating chamber in a ship; any refrigerating chamber for meat.
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1859 Sci. Amer. 19 Mar. 228/4 A current of air entering the ice-chamber..and passing into the meat chambers..keeping up perfect ventilation.
1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. IV. ii Meat-chamber, an apartment recently introduced between decks in the ocean steamships, with a huge tank in the middle, capable of holding thirty or forty tons of ice for the purpose of transporting fresh meat to Europe. It is a gigantic refrigerator.
1982 Port of London 57 60/1 A contract was signed [in 1881] in which the Albion Shipping Company agreed to instal the unit into one of its fastest sailing ships, also fitting it with insulated meat chambers.
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c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 16* (MED) Table..et nape, Boorde..and metecloth.
1494 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 323 A Mete cloth and iij tuels.
1550 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 42 3 tuelles & 4 meytt clothes 2 0.
1609 in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) III. 637 Any of the said meate clothe wch was brought to wye to be washed as aforesaid.
meat coupon n. one of the coupons making up a meat card (now historical); a voucher entitling the holder to a ration of meat.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > by government or authority > card or coupon of entitlement
ration book1845
meat card1870
ration card1870
ration ticket1871
food card1896
sugar card1917
coupon1918
meat coupon1918
clothing book1943
clothing coupon1943
1918 Times 25 Feb. 9/5 You must not tear off meat coupons yourself. This duty rests with the retailer.
1919 ‘I. Hay’ Last Million (new ed.) 97 ‘Got my meat coupons?’ They shook their heads... ‘Better have bacon and eggs,’ announced Hebe. ‘They're not rationed.’
1991 Anthropol. Today 7 9/2 A meat coupon in the [Soviet] capital..‘weighed’ considerably more than in the country towns, and farmers were not given coupons at all.
meat crusher n. a machine for tenderizing meat.
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1873 Specif. & Drawings Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 11 Feb. 361/2 Meat-crushers. A.J. Crane, Waterbury, Vt... Be it known that I..have invented a new and Improved Meat-Crusher.
1966 Far Eastern Econ. Rev. 7 July 76/2 Rice-processing combines, husking machines, cereal-grinding machines and meat crushers.
2018 A. Ganić et al. in I. Karabegović New Technol., Devel. & Applic. 513 Today, it is unimaginable that any production plant which deals with meat processing does so without the help of tens of highly-sophisticated machines (meat crusher, automatic mixers and fillers, [etc.].
meat cube n. a small cube of concentrated, dehydrated meat (or sometimes vegetable) extract; a stock cube.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > beef extract
beef essence1853
Liebig1869
Bovril1886
beef-extract1890
meat cube1951
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 392/2 1 meat cube, or 1 tsp. meat extract.
1971 Guardian 19 May 8/2 Make stock with a meat cube, sieve in left-over vegetables and you have an economical soup.
meat day n. a day on which meat is served, eaten, or allowed.
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1726 F. Altieri Dizionario Italiano & Inglese at Giorno di grasso Meat-day.
1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon III. i. 6 Who so rich but the time may come when his only refuge shall be the old man's ward, and he look out eagerly for meat-days.
1916 Times 6 Nov. 10/2 It happened to be the weekly meat-day for that family and their ½lb. of meat..was fried in sardine oil for dinner.
2002 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 9 Sept. 14 Dieters are allowed three healthy treats, such as jacket potato with beans, which they are encouraged to have on an original meat day.
meat earth n. English regional (south-western) good and fertile soil, esp. topsoil.
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1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 324 Meat-Earth, soil; the superficial earth, fit for agriculture.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Meat-earth There is often abundance of meat-earth on virgin soil where the plough has never been.
1919 China Clay Trade Rev. Oct. 135/2 On the Bodmin granites some of the peat bogs overlie china clay areas. Any soil, ‘meat earth’, as it is called, is preserved and used on the neighbouring farm land.
1932 Cornishman 12 May 2/3 Mr. Watson, the borough head gardener, has, during his short term of office, shown great skill in proving what could be done by placing many tons of meat earth covered with many tons of granite rocks in position.
meat extender n. a foodstuff added to meat dishes to give extra bulk and save money; (also) a dish which makes meat go further.
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1901 E. H. Richards in Delineator Apr. 637/1 The wise housewife will..order her meat with care, making each pound yield its full value... Another line of ‘meat extenders’ is foreign to most American menus—the various escallops and ‘loaf’ preparations for luncheons and suppers.
1914 R. A. Wardall & E. N. White in Stud. Foods xiii. 78 Materials, such as rice, potatoes, dumplings, and macaroni, are frequently cooked with meat... These are called meat extenders, and their use helps reduce the cost of food.
1980 Redbook Oct. 46/3 Hunt for the nutrition bargain by substituting for expensive foods on your shopping list (such as meat) high protein ‘meat extenders’ (such as beans or rice).
2007 A. Ramirez Salmon By-product Proteins iv. 17 Some Atlantic salmon hydrolysates showed a much higher water holding capacity than egg albumin and soy protein concentrate, indicating the suitability of their use as meat extenders in other protein products.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [noun] > starvation or action of starving > one who suffers starvation
starveling1546
meat failer1599
starver1683
breadless1839
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. C2v Oh this meate failer Dicke.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating in specific conditions > [noun] > eating in company > eating companion
mettec1330
meat-fellowa1382
board-fellow1382
meat ferec1384
messmana1450
commensala1464
companion?1505
messmate1664
trencher-companion1816
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Kings xix. 28 Þow forsoþe puttist me, þi seruaunt, among þi metefelawes [a1425 L.V. gestis] of þi boord.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating in specific conditions > [noun] > eating in company > eating companion
mettec1330
meat-fellowa1382
board-fellow1382
meat ferec1384
messmana1450
commensala1464
companion?1505
messmate1664
trencher-companion1816
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) Dan. xiv. 1 Danyel was meete feere of the kyng.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish
fishc825
meat fish1511
dogfish1612
cetaries1661
fishery1828
chicken of the sea1836
fish food1883
1511 R. Egew Let. 7 Aug. in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 106 Your Lordschipe bad me by ij barrell salmound ane for meit fische the tothir for Patrik Douglas.
1774 J. Andrews Let. 2 Aug. (1866) 23 Early this morning arriv'd in town eleven carts loaded with meat fish and one loaded with sweet oil.
meat-flour n. a type of powdered beef.
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1874 Harper's Mag. Oct. 753/2 In some of the German experiment stations the value of this meat-flour as a food for swine has been tested.., the results of which have been, in the main, very satisfactory.
1890 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Meat Meat-Flour, Beef dried at a low temperature and ground into a fine powder.
1933 F. Hund tr. W. Schaeperclaus Textbk. Pond Culture (typescript) vii. ii. 141 Meat flour is prepared from healthy meat, meat scrap, and bones. The protein content is only about 50 percent.
1968 G. Borgstrom Princ. Food Sci. i. xv. 368/1 A low-cost, dry, stable form of meat flour can be produced by a solvent-extraction process. This is a light-brown powder almost devoid of specific taste and odor.
meat fly n. a fly that breeds in meat, esp. a bluebottle or other blowfly, or a flesh fly; also figurative.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Calliphoridae > calliphora or musca vomitoria (blue-bottle)
blue fly1665
bluebottle1703
meat fly1822
1822 T. L. Beddoes Brides' Trag. iv. iii. 97 A friend! What is't?.. Hast a wife? They come; Buz, buz, lie, lie, the hungry meat-flies come.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 633 Musca vomitoria, Linn., the Common Meat Fly.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iv. i. 237 The Blue or Meat Fly (Calliphora Vomitoria) is one of the largest species found in France.
1976 Zeitschr. f. Angewandte Entomologie 80 349 Meat flies, Sarcophaga cergyrostoma, were left for 24h for laying the first instar larvae on a fresh meat of white rate.
1990 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 Nov. 19 Tourists spill out to take a look, pushing through the taxi drivers, black marketeers and other meat flies who hang around.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > bench > [noun] > to sit on at meals
meat-formc1440
c1440 (c1350) Octovian (Thornton) 1246 Whene his swerde brokene was, A mete-forme he gatt.
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1890 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon M[eat] fruit, The fruit of Artocarpus incisa.
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society > leisure > social event > hospitality > hospitable person > [noun]
vianderc1330
meat giverc1400
housekeeper1538
franklin1577
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. 143 Men..bymeneth good mete-ȝyueres, and in mynde haueth In prayers [etc.].
a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 18 The fame of an excellent mete giver.
1567 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 31/2 The ressettar,..meit geuar, & intercommonar with sic personis, salbe [etc.].
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxxvii. 32 Wile þou not ben gredi in alle plenteuous mete ȝyuyng [L. in omni epulatione].
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?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 314 Gef ha ne cunne naut þe mete graces. seggen inhare studen pater noster biuoren & Aue marie. efter mete alse.
meat-grinder n. a machine for mincing meat; (in extended use) a destructive object, action, or process.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > mincer
manglerc1840
mincing machine1850
mincer1858
ricer1889
meat-grinder1934
1934 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 44 330 To postulate that an economist, to be a scientific economist, must avoid any expression of opinion which is not an indicative and verified proposition, is to define an inanimate meat grinder into which non-economists toss facts and theories.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 166/2 As soon as the family forgets it had asparagus, those stalks will emerge and be run through the meat grinder.
1941 Life 27 Jan. 78/2 He is likely to own a car, which will be referred to as a tintype, meat grinder, puddlejumper, or an iron.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 128/1 That man..whose school training wins him the privilege of getting at once into the technological meat grinder.
1969 R. DeSola & D. DeSola Dict. Cooking 150/1 Meat grinder, utensil or attachment for grinding meat, usually provided with a variety of cutting blades for different grinds.
1970 W. S. Burroughs, Jr. Speed vii. 145 I'd be sucked right into the actual meatgrinder of another reel.
1986 D. A. Dye Platoon (1987) viii. 183 They were whole and on the way out of that fucking meat-grinder!
meat-hale adj. Scottish and English regional (northern) = meat-whole adj.
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a1779 D. Graham Young Coalman's Courtship (1787) ii. 10 Hey laddie my dow, how's your mother honest Mary? I thank you, co' Sawny, she's meat-heal.
1929 J. Alexander Mains & Hilly 36 They're a' maet-haill an' workin'some.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > frame or rack > for specific food
meat hanger1626
bacon-rack1826
meat rack1827
1626 in J. O. Halliwell Anc. Inventories (1854) 99 Item, a square meate hanger.
meat hawk n. North American regional = meat-bird n.
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1857 S. H. Hammond Wild Northern Scenes 53 Small birds, of the size and general appearance of the cuckoo, save in their hooked beaks, attracted by the scent of our cold meats,..were called by our boatmen ‘meat hawks’.
1895 H. D. Minot Land-birds & Game-birds New Eng. (ed. 2) 279 (note) ‘Meat Hawk’ is also a name in very general use in Maine.
1969 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 20 Sept. 46/1 The grey jay is known by a good many popular names including Canada jay, whiskey john, whiskey jack, carrion bird, meat hawk and camp robber.
meat hunter n. (now chiefly U.S.) a person who hunts game for food or profit.
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1887 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 298/2 That valley..used..to be a favorite resort of meat-hunters, when the first rush to the mines carried hundreds on to the head-waters of Clarke's Fork.
1907 J. R. Cook Border & Buffalo vi. 128 He thought the parties that had stolen the hides were meat-hunters from the edge of the settlement.
1985 M. W. Fox in M. W. Fox & L. D. Mickley Adv. Animal Welfare Sci. 1984 App. 187 Livestock producers, meat hunters and fishermen displayed an especially strong utilitarian orientation in contrast to members of humane, wildlife protection and environmental protection organizations.
2016 S. J. Bodio in K. Sharp Wild Spaces, Open Seasons Introd. 3 Hunters in the United States usually fall into one of three categories: utilitarian meat hunters, nature hunters, and sport hunters.
meat-jack n. a machine for turning the spit in roasting meat (cf. Jack n.2 5).
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1785 Daily Advertiser (N.Y.) 29 Aug. (advt.) in R. S. Gottesman Arts & Crafts in N.Y. (1938) I They are valuable above the other roast meat jacks, being moveable and may be used in any room.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. iv. 210 An unfortunate rusty Meat-jack, gnarring and creaking with rust and work.
1951 P. Larkin Let. 13 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 170 It's raining tonight, very black. I wonder if you are sitting in the ballock-warming glow of a fire, under some disused meat-jack, your mind removed from all verbal fantasies.
meat jelly n. a jelly prepared from meat.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > jelly > [noun] > meat jelly
meat jelly1381
cow heel1655
calf's-foot jelly1775
aspic1789
shank-jelly1824
1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 69 For to make mete gelee þat it be wel chariaunt.
1865 H. B. Stowe House & Home Papers 248 Those fine, clear meat-jellies which form a garnish..palatable to the taste.
1965 V. Holland tr. A. Escoffier Ma Cuisine 67 Beef tea and meat jelly for invalids.
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1746 Exmoor Courtship 30 And cham come to ma Meat-list agen.
meat loaf n. a baked loaf whose main ingredient is minced or chopped meat; cf. loaf n.1 2e.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > meat loaf
meat loaf1892
loaf1895
ham loaf1902
1892 New Eng. Mag. Feb. 690/2 Great creamy rusk were made, and meat loaf, and pot-cheese.
1932 E. Craig Cooking with E. Craig 58 (heading) Banana and meat loaf.
1988 L. Colwin Home Cooking xii. 86 Meat loaf ranges from the sublime..to the pedestrian: meat, egg, seasoning and bread crumbs.
meat lozenge n. now rare a tablet made with meat extract.
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1839 Derby Mercury 18 Sept. 3/1 (advt.) E. and T. Taylor's concentrated meat lozenges. For sportsmen and travellers... This superior Preparation composed of the finest Meats by concentration into the small compass of common Lozenges..will afford the most nutritious sustenance, particularly to Invalids.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 270/2 Meat lozenges are far preferable.
1971 E. Carpenter Cantuar vi. vi. 404 Randall Davidson was so alarmed when he saw the ‘tottering gait’ of the Archbishop that he offered him a meat lozenge to support him.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [noun]
stomachc1386
appetite?c1425
meat-lust1578
genius1607
meat-list1746
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxxv. 597 The Rampion eaten with vinegar and salt stirreth up appetite or meate-lust.
meat maggot n. the larva of a meat fly.
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1831 J. S. Duncan Analogies of Organized Beings 124 It [sc. a tame toad] was fed on a table with meat maggots, which it chased over the table.
1963 R. Godden Battle of Villa Fiorita x. 197 Hugh fished every morning, borrowing Mario's bicycle to go into Riva to buy bait. ‘What is it?’ Fanny asked, looking at the gruesome mess. ‘Meat maggots?’
2001 H. V. Hendrix Empty Cities of Full Moon xxvi. 273 Hungry dogs. Blind worms. Meat maggots. Our great death was their great feast.
meat mincer n. (a) figurative a person's mouth; (b) literal a machine for mincing meat.
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1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold xii. 189 The return blow..‘dabbed the paint’ about the giant's ‘meat mincer’, making the lip rise like balm.
1961 Listener 31 Aug. 331/2 Self-contained grinders, liquidizers, juicers and meat mincers are also made.
1998 Independent (Electronic ed.) 13 Jan. I have come away knowing that on board the Titanic was a dough-kneading machine, an automatic egg cooker, a plate warmer, an electric meat mincer.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > entertainment with food > one mean with food
meatnithinga1200
pinchcrust1582
pinch-gut1619
pinch-belly1648
pinch-commons1821
a1200 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Trin. Cambr.) 234 in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 227 (MED) Þos pine þolieð þo þe ware meteniðinges [a1225 Lamb. maket niþinges] here.
meat-oil n. rare an oil obtained from the flesh of whales.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > animal oil > whale oil
whale oil1435
train1465
train oil1465
meat-oil1501
1501–2 in D. Dymond Reg. Thetford Priory (1995) I. 159 Andree Carter for meteoyle 12s 0d.
1797 London Compl. Art Cookery 173 When they are cold, put them [sc.codlings] into distilled vinegar. Pour a little meat-oil on the top.
1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 184/2 After the blubber is removed you will obtain an extra output of what is called the meat-oil.
1982 J. N. Tønnessen & A. O. Johnsen Hist. Mod. Whaling ii. vii. 106 In 1904 seven stations are reported to have produced 5,000 barrels of meat oil.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > throat or gullet > [noun]
rakeeOE
cudeOE
weasanda1000
chelc1000
throatOE
garget13..
gorgec1390
oesophagusa1398
meria1400
oesophagea1400
swallowa1400
cannelc1400
gull1412
channelc1425
halsec1440
gully1538
encla?1541
stomach?1541
lane1542
weasand-pipe1544
throttlea1547
meat-pipe1553
gargil1558
guttur1562
cropc1580
gurgulio1630
gule1659
gutter lane1684
red lane1701
swallow-pipe1786
neck1818
gullet-pipe1837
foodway1904
1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 72v/1 The meate pipe, gula, læ.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Stómaco, the pipe whereby the meate goeth downe into the ventricle, beginning at the roote of the toong in the lower parts of the iawes behinde Larince, to which is knit the meat pipe.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iv. 45 (margin) The Oesophagus, or meat-pipe.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Gullet The meat-pipe.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun]
meat place?c1475
trough1901
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 80v A Mete place, esculentum.
meat poisoning n. now rare food poisoning caused by meat.
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1843 A. S. Taylor in Guy's Hosp. Rep. 2nd Ser. 1 19 With regard to meat poisoning, we may at once appeal to reported cases, to shew that the symptoms may take place speedily after the meal.
1874 tr. K. Liebermeister in tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. I. 50 There is a particular disease produced by meat-poisoning.
1920 W. G. Savage Food Poisoning & Food Infections vi. 84 In a number of meat-poisoning outbreaks the meat has been derived from a cow suffering from enteritis.
1985 J. Hickman Enchanted Islands xv. 125 According to Frau Wittmer, Ritter died of meat poisoning, and she put real gusto into deriding the hypocrisy of this backsliding vegetarian.
meat rail n. a rail for supporting meat in a larder, refrigerated container, etc.
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1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 614 Fittings for larder, Two meat rails, 6 feet long, of wrought fir..suspended from wrought iron stirrups.
1985 Sydney Morning Herald 27 July 63/5 (advt.) One set meat rails.
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1872 Trans. Wisconsin Agric. Soc. 1871 10 121 (list) Grain riddles... Meat rocker.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 591/1 Meat rocker, a mincing knife having a handle at each end, and worked by a rocking motion.
1918 Butchers' Advocate 19 June 21/2 (advt.) For Sale—One 54″, Nine Knife Meat Rocker; good condition.
meat safe n. (a) a ventilated cupboard for storing meat, usually made of wire gauze or perforated zinc; (sometimes) a wire gauze cover for meat; (b) (figurative) a kind of hat.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > ventilated cupboard > for meat
meat whitcha1425
meat ambry1457
gardeviance1459
keep1617
meat house1710
meat-screen1781
meat safe1782
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > other
cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475
hat1483
wishing-hat1600
cockle hat1603
porringer1623
poke1632
custard-cap1649
bonnet1675
muff-box1678
Caroline1687
Quaker1778
meat safe1782
balloon hat1784
gypsy hat1785
cabriolet1797
gypsy bonnet1803
Gypsy1806
Wellington hat1809
fan-tail-hat1810
umbrella hat1817
radical1828
caubeen1831
topi1835
montera1838
Petersham1845
squash hat1860
Moab1864
kiddy1865
flap-hat1866
Dolly Varden1872
brush-hata1877
potae1881
Pope's-hat1886
plateau1890
kelly1915
push-back1920
kiss-me-quick hat1963
pakul1982
tinfoil hat1982
1782 G. White Jrnl. 15 June (1970) xv. 206 Hung out my pendent meat-safe.
1805 Times 7 Nov. 4/3 Sale by auction [of] excellent and modern household furniture... Kitchen furniture, steel register and Pantheon stoves, blinds, range with steam apparatus, smoke-jack, copper, meat-safes, presses, bottle-racks.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 147 There were meat-safe-looking blinds in the parlour windows.
1860 Heads & Hats 23 Various strong-minded heads have presented to our startled and derisive gaze, sundry ‘tiles’, ‘wide-awakes’, ‘meat-safes’, and a variety of things by courtesy called ‘hats’.
1887 Cent. Mag. Mar. 740/2 We built a substantial meat-safe, with sides and top of mosquito-netting.
1945 ABC of Cookery (Min. of Food) ii. 9 Perishable foods..should be stored in a meat safe or cupboard by themselves.
meat-screen n. †(a) a metal screen placed behind roasting meat to reflect back the heat of the fire (obsolete); (b) = meat safe n. (a).
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1781 in P. C. Moore Inventory Hartlebury Castle (1960) 72 Kitchen—A Meat Screen.
1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. 48 Haster, a tin meat-screen, to reflect the heat while the operation of roasting is going on.
1851 D. Williams Sci. Simplified iii. 76 Semicircular polished tin meat-screens..more expeditiously dress the joint than flat tinned screens.
1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour x. lvi. 320 Tell Susan to keep so-and-so in the meat-screen.
1914 National Provisioner 27 June 22/2 For the preservation of meat in the summer season it is customary to use meat screens or cages, sometimes as elaborate as a large refrigerator, which are fly proof and are placed in a cool and drafty place to shelter the meat, milk,..and other articles which an American housewife would keep in her ice box.
1996 ‘A. Carr’ Last Summer vii. 161 She'd never been in the Rectory kitchen before... This looked so old-fashioned... An old cabinet refrigerator, a tongue presser, meat screens.
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1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. G1 There being one joynt of flesh on the table for such as had meate stomackes.
meat substitute n. a protein-containing food used as a replacement for meat in the diet; spec. a meat analogue.
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1893 N.Y. Times 15 Jan. 17/4 The cooking for the sick is intended to be of especial value to medical students and nurses, and will include instructions for the..cooking of meats and meat substitutes.
1931 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 26 234 Retail prices of the stated meat foods, adjusted for the changing price level, have not greatly increased, relative to meat substitutes.
1992 Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times 12 Jan. 9/2 The U.S. Department of Agriculture decided to include almonds as a meat substitute in the national school lunch program.
meat-table n. †(a) a dining table (obsolete); (b) a table on which meat is cut up in preparation for cooking.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > meat-block, board, or table
meat-table1381
stock1488
butcher's block1577
butcher's tray1651
carving-board1675
meat-boarda1827
meat block1838
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > dining table
meat-boardc1275
tablec1330
meat-table1381
dining table1553
board1606
dinner table1785
mahogany1837
trough1930
1381 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1923) 5 Jtem, iii mete-tables.
c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 36 (MED) An hound..þat..eete þe fleisch or breed fallyng from þe mete table.
a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 729/7 Escaria, a mettabylle.
1588 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 262 In the hall. One meate table with two formes two tresills & 4 quissions.
1874 Appletons' Jrnl. Dec. 818/1 One of the ‘blouses’..is amusing himself by pushing along the floor a big meat-table, on which stands a great white bull-dog.
2010 W. E. Williams Up from Projects iii. 42 Nasty, dirty-gray water was cascading over the sides of the meat table.
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R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love ii. x. 95 God we awe to loyf, And in tyme of our meet takynge & space be-twix morsels to ȝeild him loueyngis with honily swetnes.
meat tea n. a tea at which meat is served, a high tea.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > tea
tea1738
high tea1787
tea and turn out1806
supper1818
tousy tea1835
meat tea1842
thé complet1856
low tea1883
thick tea1886
tea-supper1892
cream tea1964
1842 E. Fitzgerald Let. 2 Mar. (1980) I. 311 Mr. Browne the elder..came to town yesterday: eat [sic] a meat tea at my rooms: and was pleased to express himself laudatorily of my Opie Fruit Girl.
1885 W. Black White Heather xxv This high occasion was to be celebrated by a ‘meat-tea’.
1916 E. F. Benson David Blaize iv. 73 Mr. Dutton had just come out of meat-tea with the other masters.
1969 Guardian 17 July 11/4 They like a good meat tea when they come in.
1993 Canad. Geographic Nov. 43/1 Socials, dances, soup suppers, ‘meat teas’, concerts in the school every other night.
meat tenderizer n. (a) a substance such as papain which is rubbed into meat or used as a marinade to soften the fibres; (b) a small hammer with teeth on the head used to beat meat.
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1936 N.Y. Times 2 Aug. xii.– xiii. 17 (advt.) Salesmen... ‘Tendra’, new liquid meat tenderizer, complying with all pure food laws.
1958 Catal. County Stores, Taunton June 12 Papaya Juice (meat tenderiser)—a bot. 2/-.
1969 New Yorker 27 Sept. 122/2 Unite, slaves of the steam kettle and the shakers of meat tenderizer and MSG.
1987 Green Cuisine Feb. 6/1 Did you know that ¼ pint of papaya juice can be injected into the jugular veins of cows just before they're slaughtered? The process has been introduced into this country as a meat tenderiser.
1989 Miller's Collectables Price Guide 1989–90 223/4 Meat tenderisers.
1991 New Yorker 14 Oct. 87/2 A granite carver's tool chest may hold..a nine-point (a square-shanked bit with a head like a small meat tenderizer).
meat thermometer n. a thermometer which can be inserted into meat in order to measure its temperature during cooking.
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1928 N.Y. Times 14 July 26/2 The use of the meat thermometer which mades it possible to roast large cuts to just the turn desired, and with a minimum of shrinkage, is discussed and illustrated.
1958 Life 14 Apr. (verso front cover) (advt.) Make all your cooking easier with these General Electric work-savers: Meat thermometer buzzes when roast or steak is ready.
1979 M. Cunningham & J. Laber Fannie Farmer Cookbk. 27 The most common..meat thermometer is one that you insert in meat or poultry at the start and leave in throughout the cooking process.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun]
mealtideOE
mealtimelOE
meatsele?a1400
meat-timec1400
meat-while1435
meltitha1538
feeding-time1832
trencher-time1846
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 71 (MED) Alle þis mirþe þay maden to þe mete tyme.
a1450 Ordination of Nuns (Vesp.) in E. A. Kock Rule St. Benet (1902) 150 (MED) Þair sal scho sit in hir prayers vnto þe mete-tym.
1920 G. P. Dunbar Guff o' Peat Reek 24 Never far fae hame at mait-time.
meat tool n. slang the penis.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
weapona1000
tarsec1000
pintleOE
cock?c1335
pillicock?c1335
yard1379
arrowa1382
looma1400
vergea1400
instrumentc1405
fidcocka1475
privya1500
virile member (or yard)?1541
prickc1555
tool1563
pillock1568
penis1578
codpiece1584
needle1592
bauble1593
dildo1597
nag1598
virility1598
ferret1599
rubigo?a1600
Jack1604
mentula1605
virge1608
prependent1610
flute1611
other thing1628
engine1634
manhood1640
cod1650
quillity1653
rammer1653
runnion1655
pego1663
sex1664
propagator1670
membrum virile1672
nervea1680
whore-pipe1684
Roger1689
pudding1693
handle?1731
machine1749
shaft1772
jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
organ1833
intromittent apparatus1836
root1846
Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
dickc1890
dingusc1890
John Thomasc1890
old fellowc1890
Aaron's rod1891
dingle-dangle1893
middle leg1896
mole1896
pisser1896
micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
dingbatc1920
plonkerc1920
Johna1922
whangera1922
knob1922
tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
ding-a-ling1969
dipstick1970
tonk1970
noonies1972
salami1977
monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
1966 A. Baraka in Cavalier Jan. 64/1 But, however she drew him to her, and he drew her towards his thing, the mutilation characterizes the white man's insane fear of black creation. And the meattool of his physical manifestation is something to be destroyed.
1971 B. Malamud Tenants 88 What do you do..with your meat tool? You got no girl, who do you fuck other than your hand?
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > people or horses conveying meat
meat train1845
1845 J. C. Frémont Rep. Exploring Exped. Rocky Mts. 234 The meat train did not arrive this evening, and I gave Godey leave to kill our little dog.
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1847 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1846 310 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (29th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52) III The mode by which I obtain a vacuum in meat vat A. for curing meat.
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1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 940 In any case the ‘meat-washing’ character of the stools..should prevent a mistake.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun]
mealtideOE
mealtimelOE
meatsele?a1400
meat-timec1400
meat-while1435
meltitha1538
feeding-time1832
trencher-time1846
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love ii. x. 95 With desire in meet qwhiel to ȝerne.
c1450 (c1400) Emaré (1908) 229 When þe metewhyle was donn, In-to hys chambur he wente sonn.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > ventilated cupboard > for meat
meat whitcha1425
meat ambry1457
gardeviance1459
keep1617
meat house1710
meat-screen1781
meat safe1782
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 14 Cibutum, a mete whycche.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > [adjective] > having (good) appetite
meat-whole?1599
fresh and fasting1614
hearty1713
meat-halea1779
appetized1820
appetited1829
?1599 in Hakluyt's Select. Voy. (1812) V. 36 In all but seuen men aboord the shippe that were meat-whole.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [noun]
hungerc825
appetite1303
famec1515
sharpness1581
suction1615
meat-will1643
sucking1656
sharpsetness1673
esurition1678
stomach-worm1788
hunger-pain1820
yird-hunger1825
appetizement1826
yapness1828
esuriencea1834
peckishness1871
sinking feeling1890
1643 in J. G. Dalyell Darker Superstitions Scotl. (1834) 492 Ye sall have such ane meit-will and sall have nothing to eat.
meatworker n. chiefly Australian and New Zealand a worker in the meat industry.
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1909 J. London South of Slot in Sat. Evening Post 22 May 4/1 He won a massive silver cup standing thirty inches high for being the best-sustained character at the butchers and meat workers' annual grand masked ball.
1986 Auckland Star 7 Feb. a3 Freezing works employers have re-affirmed the limits of their wage offers to the meatworkers and the industry's tradesmen.
1987 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 12 Mar. 8/1 Mudginberri meatworkers are the highest paid meatworkers in the country, but are paid on performance.
meat works n. chiefly Australian and New Zealand (a) an establishment where meat is processed and packed; (b) a slaughterhouse.
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1895 T. A. Coghlan Wealth & Progress New S. Wales I. xvi. 367 All the cattle killed, except 27,891 treated in the meat-preserving works, were required for local consumption.]
1897 R. Newton Work & Wealth Queensland 22 (caption) ‘Freezers’ for the meat works.
1948 V. Palmer Golconda ii. 9 Driving them across country to the meatworks at Wyndham.
1987 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 17 Dec. 57/2 The cattle market was..cheaper..due to sheer weight of numbers combined with weak demand associated with some meat works closing down prior to the Christmas holiday.
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1576 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. 53 Seis thow nocht me, baith meit-worth, claith-worth, and gude aneuch lyke in persoun?
C3. attributive. Designating an animal intended for human consumption. Cf. meat butter n., meat fish n. at Compounds 2.
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1548 in R. K. Hannay Acts Lords of Council Public Affairs (1932) 571 The pasturing of maister Markis meit scheip.
1598 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 288 xxiij calves..ij mait oxen.
1697 Brabster Rental in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. (1920) VIII. 73 With a meat lamb at Lambes nixt, if he have itt.
1773 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. (at cited word) He pays nothing else to the pursuer, out of his possession, excepting a meat goose, when he rears geese.
1856 G. N. Jones Florida Plantation Rec. (1927) 169 I doe not see but verry few of the shoats that I turned out for meat hogs this year.
1868 St. Andrews Gaz. 4 July in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) I have heard the crofters state that they got the mussels, and all got the meat mussels.
1906 J. O. Armour Packers, Private Car Lines, & People 325 What I have said as to dressed beef..[applies] to all the other branches of raising meat animals and converting them into food for the table.
1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth vi. vii. 202 In meat animals the maximum percentage of flesh is only produced by a high level of feeding throughout most of the growth-period.
1967 Goliad (Texas) Advance-guard 13 Apr. 7/2 Meat-hogs wanted.
1995 Animals' Voice Winter 19/1 ‘Thumper’ is a meat rabbit, but we keep her as a pet.
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meatv.
/miːt/, U.S. /mit/ Now regional.
1.
a. transitive. To feed or supply (a person) with food or provisions; to feed or provide (an animal) with fodder or feed. Also reflexive.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > supply with provisions
victualc1380
meat1568
provant1599
provision1604
catera1616
bread1797
grub1819
ration1834
vegetate1846
tucker1899
feed1904
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1013 Þa bed he þæt mon sceolde his here mettian [lOE Laud metian] and horsian.
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 83 (MED) He [sc. the hart] stereþ and peseþ forthe metyng hym.
1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau ii. iii. sig. C.iv Well ywisse Esau, ye did knowe well ynouw That I had as muche nede to be meated as you.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 22v Good husbandry meateth his frind and the poore.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xix. 271 Haste then, and meate your men.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 57 Those that traile the Sweath-rake have usually vjd. a day if they meate themselfes.
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 385 They meat their Horses with Barley.
1776 C. Keith Farmer's Ha' lix But gae awa' e'now (quo' he) And meat the horse.
1866 Rachel's Secret I. 105 Besides their own family, there were the five men whom they had to ‘meat’.
1895 ‘Q’ Wandering Heath 26 My father..went out to meat the pig.
1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iii. 161 The postie told this to Auntie while Chris meated the chickens.
1937 J. Nicholson Restin' Chair Yarns 83 Belief in witchcraft was fairly prevalent, and almost every district had within its borders some female who, in local parlance, ‘could do mair as meat hersel'’.
1976 R. Bulter Shaela 58 Da fok maet da hens whin dir in idda hoose.
1994 C. De Luca Voes & Sounds 57 I sal maet you.
2015 D. Kynoch in Lallans 86 18 A'm jist gaan oot tae mett the hens eenoo.
b. transitive. U.S. Of a slaughtered animal: to provide (a person) with meat.
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1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders 282 That bear'll meat me a month.
1951 V. Randolph We always lie to Strangers 127 That coon was four foot long, an' must have weighed a hundred pounds! He'll meat the whole family a month easy.
1974 P. M. Fink Bits of Mountain Speech 16 Meat, Supply with meat. ‘One hog will meat us all winter.’
2. intransitive. To feed; to partake of food. rare.In quot. 1889 punning with meet v.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)]
eatc825
to break breadeOE
baitc1386
feeda1387
to take one's repast?1490
to take repast1517
repast1520
peck?1536
diet1566
meat1573
victual1577
graze1579
manger1609
to craw it1708
grub1725
scoff1798
browse1818
provender1819
muckamuck1853
to put on the nosebag1874
refect1882
restaurate1882
nosh1892
tucker1903
to muck in1919
scarf1960
snack1972
1573 Haddington Burgh Rec. 24 Dec. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Gif the person lyis not in the hous quhair he metis to pay ij sh. for his meltetht.
1889 Jokes 1st Ser. 11 (E.D.D.) In Aberdeenshire where farm-servants ‘meat’ in the house.
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