steak

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"Stay at the Ascot Hotel for the best steak you will ever eat" was his claim and for once Niall came through as the steak was and in all probability will be the finest steak I ever had.

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  1. noun A slice of meat, typically beef, usually cut thick and across the muscle grain and served broiled or fried.
  2. noun A thick slice of a large fish cut across the body.
  3. noun A patty of ground meat broiled or fried.

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  • The cook gave me a terrible whipping because I had eaten the steak, and I had hardly recovered from that when Rollo, who was now what I had been, took me up into the nursery and played with me just as I had always played with him. —  Andiron Tales
  • When one side of a steak was partially done, pieces of it were cut off and devoured while the other was cooking. —  Over the Rocky Mountains Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin
  • Eating a good rump-steak, I called for mustard_; Away she went, and whipped me up a custard_. —  The Book of Humorous Verse
  • 'This is a very rare Puddin It's a cut-an'-come-again Puddin',' said Sam It's a Christmas, steak, and apple-dumpling Puddin',' said Bill It's a--Shall I tell him?' —  The Magic Pudding
  • He protested against the wines of England being at all comparable to those of America; nay, I remember he was heretic enough to deny us the supremacy of a rump-steak, and raised his voice against the majesty of Dolly's I would not have so much heeded his advancing this heterodox doctrine before Americans, had he not at the same time come well prepared to prove himself qualified to give judgment by producing, hot-and-hot, a steak that even I was compelled to admit might have been entered as A.1. —  Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
 

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  1. Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik; see steig- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English steike, steyke, from Icelandic steik, a steak, = Swedish stek = Danish steg, roast meat, from Icelandic steikja (= Swedish steka = Danish stege), roast on a spit (cf. stikna, be roasted or scorched), akin to stika, a stick: see stifik stick.
 

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