baldrib

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bald +‎ rib

Noun[edit]

baldrib (plural baldribs)

  1. (UK, dated) A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.
    • 1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham:
      Leg, bladebone, baldrib, griskin, chine, or chop
      Profess myself a genuine Philopig

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for baldrib”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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