Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Salt pork; salt-horse; salt-junk: used by fishermen, whalers, sailors, and soldiers.
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Examples
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When I started, I'd put a couple of sour-dough biscuits and some sow-belly in my pocket in case I might get hungry.
Bald-Face 2010
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When I started, I'd put a couple of sour-dough biscuits and some sow-belly in my pocket in case I might get hungry.
Bald-Face 2010
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The outfit ate its "sow-belly," soda-biscuit, and coffee three times a day, and smoked its pipes, but was a little shy on yarns round the camp-fire.
Judith of the Plains Marie Manning
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When I started, I'd put a couple of sour-dough biscuits and some sow-belly in my pocket in case I might get hungry.
Bald-Face 1922
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My diet was one of sow-belly, bread, and coffee, and what fish I caught in the sluggish, muddy stream ....
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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For breakfast a corn pone of coarse, white corn meal, and a bit of fried sow-belly.
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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For breakfast a corn pone of coarse, white corn meal, and a bit of fried sow-belly.
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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My diet was one of sow-belly, bread, and coffee, and what fish I caught in the sluggish, muddy stream ....
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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But when I lived much in cow camps I often carried a volume of Swinburne, as a kind of antiseptic to alkali dust, tepid, muddy water, frying-pan bread, sow-belly bacon, and the too-infrequent washing of sweat-drenched clothing.
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'Mongee, Madame, mongee, no spika da French,' an 'rub your stomach an' look hungry, an 'she gives you a slice of sow-belly an'
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