salt-junk

Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The boys said the officers were sick of salt-junk, and meant to have turtle-soup before they came home.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

No appetizing turkey and plum-pudding, eaten in the midst of loving faces and merry talk and laughter; nothing but coarse salt-junk and hard ship-biscuit, hastily snatched among rough, unsympathetic men, who neither knew nor cared anything about him.

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The maiden at home fancies her lover charging at the head of his company, when in reality he is at that precise moment endeavoring to convince his company-cooks that salt-junk needs five hours 'boiling, or is anxiously deciding which pair of worn-out trousers shall be ejected from a drummer-boy's knapsack.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

The boys said the officers were sick of salt-junk, and meant to have turtle-soup before they came home.

The Man without a Country 1917

The boys said the officers were sick of salt-junk, and meant to have turtle-soup before they came home.

Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Various 1880

The boys said the officers were sick of salt-junk, and meant to have turtle-soup before they came home.

If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865

"Wery good, sir; I'm agreeable," returned Disco, reaching forth his pewter plate; "another hunk o 'that pottimus, Jumbo; it's better than salt-junk any day; and I say, Jumbo, don't grin so much, else ye'll enlarge yer pretty little mouth, which' ud be a pity."

Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859

Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855