Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In stock-raising, fat and in high condition, or ready for market.

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Examples

  • At a meeting on government sponsored food research a few months ago, in New Jersey, for the Institute of Food Technologists, researchers reported on armed forces food research aimed at more compact rations, on turning beef-fat fractions into cocoa-butter like material, on an assortment of really quite minor problems solved with exquisite and costly ingenuity.

    The Twinkies Menace Willett, Roslyn 1974

  • Tallow having beef-fat in its manufacture is an abomination, to the Hindoos, by whom it is considered unholy to slay, or even to touch any portion of the slaughtered cattle of their respect: for believing in transmigration, they affirm that these animals receive the souls of their departed relations.

    Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885

  • In the same way, the cook preserves all the odds and ends of pork-rinds and beef-fat, which he sells at considerable profit; upon a six months 'voyage frequently realizing thirty or forty dollars from the sale, and in large ships, even more than that.

    Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855

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    Mark Strausman: Where's The Beef (From)? 2008

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    Mark Strausman: Where's The Beef (From)? 2008

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