beef eater

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• Beef

  ·noun Applied colloquially to human flesh. II. Beef ·adj Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. I...

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• beef

  To cry beef; to give the alarm. They have cried beef on us. Cant.--To be in a man's beef; to wound h...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beef

  A figurative term for strength. ♦ More beef! more men on. ...

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• Eater

  ·noun One who, or that which, eats. ...

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• Beef-witted

  ·noun Stupid; dull. ...

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• Bully beef

  ·add. ·v Pickled or canned beef. ...

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• Mess beef

  ·add. ·- Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest pl...

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• Beef Market

  In Leadenhall Market (P.C. 1732). ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• hung beef

  A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fello...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beef-wood

  n. the timber of various Australiantrees, especially of the genus Casuarina, and some ofthe Banksia...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• albany beef

  Sturgeon; a fish which abounds in the Hudson river; so called by the people in the State of New York...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• martlemas-beef

  beef dried in the chimney like bacon, so called, because it is usual to kill the beef for this purpo...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• albany beef

  A name for the sturgeon of the Hudson River, where it is taken in quantity for commerce. ...

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• beef-kid

  A mess utensil for carrying meat from the coppers. ...

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• jerked beef

  Charqui. Meat cured by drying in the open air, with or without salt. Also, the name of an American c...

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• Ant-eater

  ·noun One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. ·see Ant-bear, <<Pango...

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• Bee-eater

  ·noun An African bird of the genus Rhinopomastes. II. Bee-eater ·noun A bird of the genus Merops, t...

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• Lotos-eater

  ·noun One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolenc...

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• Lotus-eater

  ·noun ·Alt. of Lotos-eater. ...

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• Man-eater

  ·noun One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sh...

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• toad eater

  A poor female relation, and humble companion, or reduced gentlewoman, in a great family, the standin...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• ant-eater

  n. 1) i.q. Ant-eating-Porcupine. See echidna. 2) The Banded Ant-eater (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bee-eater

  n. a bird-name. The European Bee-eater is Merops apiaster; the Australian species is Merops ornatus...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• fig-eater

  n. a bird, i.q. grape-eater (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• fly-eater

  n. the new vernacular name for the Australianbirds of the genus Gerygone (q.v.), and see Warbler.Th...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• grape-eater

  n. a bird, called formerly Fig-eater, now known as the Green-backedWhite-eye (q.v.), Zosterops goul...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• honey-eater

  n. an Australian bird, with atongue specially adapted for being formed into a tube for theabsorptio...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• fire-eater

  One notoriously fond of being in action; much humbled by iron-clads. ...

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• fog-eater

  A synonym of fog-dog and fog-bow. It may be explained as the clearing of the upper stratum, permitti...

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• roast-beef dress

  Full uniform; probably from its resemblance to that of the royal beef-eaters. ...

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• ant-eater, banded

  See banded ant-eater. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• banded ant-eater

  n. name given to a smallterrestrial and ant-eating marsupial, Myrmecobiusfasciatus, Waterh, found i...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• wattled bee-eater

  See bee-eater. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• roast beef of old england

  A popular air, by which officers are summoned to the dinner-table. ...

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