Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The belly of a salmon prepared for eating by salting and curing.
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Examples
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By the time you've been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit-tracks and salmon-belly, you'll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum.
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By the time you've been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit-tracks and salmon-belly, you'll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum.
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And you ate salmon-belly and dogs up the Tanana, to say nothing of going through two famines; and you haven't turned your back on the country yet.
CHAPTER 6 2010
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"Hello! salmon-belly!" would good Major John peal out.
Private Peat Harold Reginald Peat 1926
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The poi was one-finger, the pig fat, the salmon-belly unstinking, the fish of great freshness and plenty, though the opihis (tiny, rock-clinging shell-fish) had been salted and thereby made tough.
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“Hello! salmon-belly!” would good Major John peal out.
Private Peat Peat, Harold R 1917
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By the time you 've been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit-tracks and salmon-belly, you 'll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum.
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And you ate salmon-belly and dogs up the Tanana, to say nothing of going through two famines; and you haven't turned your back on the country yet.
A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896
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"The poi was one-finger, the pig fat, the salmon-belly unstinking, the fish of great freshness and plenty, though the opihis" (tiny, rock-clinging shell-fish) "had been salted and thereby made tough.
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