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Examples
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Leather drag washers should be lubed with neat's foot oil.
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No need, either, to fling the rats on the dungheap, for they devour them with as much gusto as I should a neat's tongue.
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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Brettell and Cassie made printing ink from fat-lamp black mixed with neat's foot oil and they ran off dozens of the forms.
THE GREAT ESCAPE BRICKHILL, PAUL 1951
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A fashionable or cabinet dinner of the same period consisted of "a dish of marrow-bones, a leg of mutton, a dish of fowl, three pullets, and a dozen larks, all in a dish; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies, a dish of prawns, and cheese."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Various
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And he said to me: Behold I have given thee neat's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision
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The best kind of meat for mince pies is neat's tongue and feet -- the shank of beef makes very good pies.
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He's been stickin 'in like a hatter ever sin' syne, an 'has a'thing as neat's ninepence; so I canna say a single wird.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork.
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
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And he said to me: Behold I have given thee neat's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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Mutton, a loin of Veal, a dish of fowl, being three Pullets and 24 Larks all in a great dish, a Tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies, a dish of Prawns and cheese.
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