Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The belly of a salmon prepared for eating by salting and curing.

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Examples

  • 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.

    To The Man on the Trail 2010

  • 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.

    TO THE MAN ON THE TRAIL 2010

  • 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

  • "Hello! salmon-belly!" would good Major John peal out.

    Private Peat Harold Reginald Peat 1926

  • 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.

    The Bones of Kahekili 1919

  • “Hello! salmon-belly!” would good Major John peal out.

    Private Peat Peat, Harold R 1917

  • 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.

    To the Man on the Trail 1900

  • 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

  • "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.

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

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