collop

• “Wherever grass grows there will a Kerry calf or "collop" be found.”

  Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

• “But I never counted upon being beaten so thoroughly as I was; for knowing me now to be off my guard, the young hussy stopped at the farmyard gate, as if with a brier entangling her, and while I was stooping to take it away, she looked me full in the face by the moonlight, and jerked out quite suddenly, — ‘Can your love do a collop, John?’”

  Lorna Doone

• “But now you go into the parlour, dear, while I do your collop.”

  Lorna Doone

• “This was true enough; and seeing no chance of anything more than cross questions and crooked purposes, at which a girl was sure to beat me, I even allowed her to lead me home, with the thoughts of the collop uppermost.”

  Lorna Doone

• “Who can do him a red deer collop, except Sally herself, as I can?”

  Lorna Doone

• “The pie only served to sharpen his appetite, and I heard him sharpening his knife and saying he must have a collop or two, for he was not near satisfied.”

  The Red Fairy Book

• “Inside the stable, others more fortunate stood in stalls, but they were such horses as will snap at you when you pass by them, and Inman turned and watched as a claybank mare bit a collop of flesh as big as a walnut out of the upper arm of one of the old market-bound men passing through the hall on the way to his room.”

  Cold Mountain

• “A piece of collop in a frying-pan left on the table, and dirty crockery in the sink.”

  Maigret at the Crossroads

• “An 'if the pope himself said grace, I'd sooner starve than ate a collop of the crater.”

  Adrift in the Ice-Fields

• “He knew him when he began with a _collop_ of sheep as his property in the world.”

  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

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