pope's eye en · NOUN
Meanings
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The gland surrounded with fat in the middle of the thigh of an ox or sheep.
"Our good Annie would cook for you; and you should have the hot new milk, and the pope's eye from the mutton; and every foot of you would become a yard in about a fortnight."
1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter L, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
- A cut of steak from the buttock muscles of a bovine
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Synonyms
popeseye steak · popeseye cut · pope's eye cut · spider steak · popeseye · pope's eye steak · spider cut
Translations (1)
cy cnau'r forddwydydd (lymph gland)