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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The chest of an animal.
  2. n. The ribs and meat taken from the chest of an animal.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The breast of an animal, or that part of the breast that lies next to the ribs; in a horse, the part extending from the neck at the shoulder down to the fore legs.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The chest of an animal
  2. n. A cut of meat taken from this area, especially from the section under the first five ribs

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef

Etymologies

  1. Middle English brusket, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.

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