Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Jamaica, the root of the Boerhaavia decumbens.
- noun Pork.
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Examples
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Old Bennett warn't no hunter, and wild meat ain't like hog-meat, anyway.
Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson
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If they have hog-meat and hominy, whiskey and tobacco, they are content; they will not trouble themselves to plant fruit-trees.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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Jes talk to me bout hog-meat, ef yo want to see me pleased,
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But you jes kin gimme hog-meat, an Im happy all de time.
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Jes 'talk to me 'bout hog-meat, ef yo' want to see me pleased,
The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson 1904
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But you 'jes' kin gimme hog-meat, an 'I'm happy all de time.
The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson 1904
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Too much whisky and tobacco and hog-meat have deprived us of physical beauty, and we are sadly lacking in moral strength, but the life of freedom and lawlessness developed good traits, too.
A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903
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I must git out the boss an 'wagon an' haul that hog-meat up to
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Poke Stover, in putting down some hog-meat for the winter.
For the Liberty of Texas Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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_ -- On account of the large portion of fat between the muscle-fibers, hog-meat, particularly when fresh, is not usually regarded as being digestible.
Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896
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