·noun Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.
Termed by seamen bully-beef; disliked because all the substance is boiled away to enrich the cook's ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- In decorative art, boiled leather, fitted by the process to receive impressed patterns, lik...
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