baldrib

English

Etymology

From bald +‎ rib.

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Noun

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
    • 1840, Thomas Middleton, “The Mayor of Queenborough”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 1, London: Edward Lumley, Chancery Lane, page 174:
      Faith, thou art such a spiny baldrib, all the mistresses in the town will never get thee up.
    • 1909, J. E. Foster, editor, Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, from 1504 to 1635, Cambridge: Printed for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, pages 312-313:
      Item to Reve for another baldrib [...] Item for a baldrib for the third Bell

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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