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baldrib en · NOUN

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Etymology

From bald + rib.

Meanings

1. (UK, dated) A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.
   • Item to Reve for another baldrib [...] Item for a baldrib for the third Bell 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:
   • Leg, bladebone, baldrib, griskin, chine, or chop Profess myself a genuine Philopig 1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham:
   • Faith, thou art such a spiny baldrib, all the mistresses in the town will never get thee up. 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:

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