gristle

• They paid attention with only a portion of themselves, yet understood with lucid simultaneity. —  The Dig
• It knocked him clean off his feet in a spray of bloody gristle, and he skidded across the hardpan, smearing bright arterial blood on the sand. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
• He tried to pull back his weapon, but the blade seemed stuck into gristle or bone. —  The Magic of Krynn
• "If I'd only been as big and husky as you are," surveying admiringly some six feet two of altitude and two hundred-odd pounds of hard meat, gristle, and bone, "I'd have grabbed him by one ankle, whirled him around my head, and flung him into the fifteenth row of seats. —  First Lensman
• Made it sound like "gristle." —  The End of the Pier

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