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Corn beef   /kɔrn bif/   Listen
Corn beef

noun
1.
Beef cured or pickled in brine.  Synonyms: bully beef, corned beef.






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"Corn beef" Quotes from Famous Books



... bustled about trying to make him comfortable near the cheery blaze, and then filling a pannikin with the canoeist's stew of corn beef, succotash and left-over potatoes, they invited him to set-to, nor ...
— Canoe Mates in Canada - Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan • St. George Rathborne

... Underground plant food must be liquid in nature. This is because plants, like babies, must have very dilute food. Plants can no more get food out of a dry lump of soil than a little baby can get its food from a hunk of bread or a thick slice of corn beef. But let that soil be water-soaked, and have the proper bacteria at work, and the material is in plant-food form. Josephine has here an old, old experiment. What was a white pink is now a red one. It has been in that glass of red ink and a little water. And lo, up the stem the red fluid climbed ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw



Words linked to "Corn beef" :   corned beef, beef, boeuf, bully beef



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