Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mess utensil used by the crew of a merchant ship for holding cooked beef.

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Examples

  • "Shove that beef-kid down this way, will yer?" called Bill.

    Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902

  • I was about to ascend to the deck my eye happened to light on the bread-barge and beef-kid, which contained the remnants of our last hasty meal.

    Typee Herman Melville 1855

  • I lingered behind in the forecastle a moment to take a parting glance at its familiar features, and just as I was about to ascend to the deck my eye happened to light on the bread-barge and beef-kid, which contained the remnants of our last hasty meal.

    Typee; a real romance of the South Seas 1846

  • "Oh, Lord! hold me, somebody, while I faint!" he exclaimed, turning up the whites of his eyes like a dying duck in a thunder-storm, and flinging himself so suddenly backwards into the arms of Harvey that the latter went down stern foremost, landing on the deck with one hand in the beef-kid and the other in the blacking-box, while Markham rolled on the top of him, kicking spasmodically, and simulating the feeble struggles of an expiring person.

    Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886

  • a moment to take a parting glance at its familiar features, and just as I was about to ascend to the deck my eye happened to light on the bread-barge and beef-kid, which contained the remnants of our last hasty meal.

    Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life 1846

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