Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A steak or inferior cut from that part of a beef-animal that is known as the chuck. See
chuck , n., 6.
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Examples
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As for Hafiz, to his astonishment he had been introduced to chuck-steak; and the pleasure was anything but unmitigated.
Athalie Frank Craig 1899
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The chuck-steak cut up on Hafiz's plate in the bathroom had been purchased with postage stamps -- the last of a sheet bought by Athalie in days of affluence for foreign correspondence.
Athalie Frank Craig 1899
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This was the signal for the would-be Bohemian to emerge from his dainty flat or his oak-panelled studio in Washington Square, hasten down to Bleecker or Houston Street, there to eat chicken badly _braisé_, fried chuck-steak, and soggy spaghetti, and to drink thin blue wine and chicory-coffee that he might listen to the feast of witticism and flow of soul that he expected to find at the next table.
Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches Kenneth [Illustrator] Frazier 1875
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