horse-pieces

“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

“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

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

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale

“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