horse-pieces

Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Two men were now told off as "blubber-room men," whose duty it became to go below, and squeezing themselves in as best they could between the greasy masses of fat, cut it up into "horse-pieces" about eighteen inches long and six inches square.

The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as the sheets from a rapt orator's desk.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as the sheets from a rapt orator's desk.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as the sheets from a rapt orator's desk.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

Meanwhile, the spade-man stands on the sheet itself, perpendicularly chopping it into the portable horse-pieces.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as the sheets from a rapt orator’s desk.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002