salt-beef

The gangster clique has established its privilege of taking first cut of the salt-beef in the meat-kids.

CHAPTER XVII 2010

Kellen had been glad to find that they would be trading a quantity of smoked venison and wood-pigeon pickled in brine for an equal weight of salt-beef, preserved eggs, and dried fish (though Idalia warned him he'd be very tired of all of them by spring).

Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

Our friendship had been rekindled and we kept it up à deux, meeting each other halfway, as it were, in East Finchley, or Hendon, or other last outposts of the city where we had heard rumors of a new salt-beef bar or similar having opened.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

Kellen had been glad to find that they would be trading a quantity of smoked venison and wood-pigeon pickled in brine for an equal weight of salt-beef, preserved eggs, and dried fish (though Idalia warned him he'd be very tired of all of them by spring).

The Outstretched Shadow 2003

They were salt-beef sandwiches so it wasn't any good trying to press the moisture out.

The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

They had a piece of salt-beef thrown into the boat to them on leaving the ship; and it rained a good deal that night and the following day, which might satiate their thirst.

Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards

When it was, it was considered essential to serve out peas with the pork, and flour, raisins, and suet, for a pudding, on salt-beef days.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various

Government that this beef should be cured and salted so as to be of use to the army and navy, obviating the necessity of shipping salt-beef around Cape Horn.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

The gangster clique has established its privilege of taking first cut of the salt-beef in the meat-kids.

Chapter 17 1914

The gangster clique has established its privilege of taking first cut of the salt-beef in the meat-kids.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896