gristle

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Marry a girl while she's in the gristle, and you can shape her bones for her.

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  1. noun Cartilage, especially when present in meat.

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  • The incident that had cemented this opinion was a bad meal at Ewell's Diner — particularly bad meat loaf (gristle), extraordinarily bad mashed potatoes (paste) and moderately bad bourbon (oily). —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • There was plenty of that around Doc; his path was always that of peril, of danger and thrilling adventure A second member of the group reposed on the pier boards, snoring softly in unconsciousness Hair, gristle, arms longer than his legs, a face that was incredibly homely--that was "Monk." —  010 - The Phantom City
  • At first I thought it was gristle--but it was too hard for that. —  EQMM, May2006
  • Tiny eyes appeared buried in pits of gristle, while his mouth was so big it looked like an accident He was Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Blodgett Mayfair, the chemist among Doc's aides A few moments later, footsteps sounded in the corridor outside. —  078 - The Crimson Serpent
  • His small eyes all but jumped from their gristle-walled pits. —  014 - The Monsters
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English.

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  1. from Middle English gristel, grystyl, from Anglo-Saxon gristle (= OFries. gristel, gristl, grestel, gerstel), cartilage; diminutive in form, from Anglo-Saxon grist, a grinding (with reference to the difficulty of masticating it): see grist, n. Cf. Dutch knarsbeen, gristle, from knarsen, gnash, crunch, + been, bone.
 

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