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baldrib

noun

Etymology

From bald + rib.

  1. derived from *h₁rebʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *ribją✻ — “rib, reef”
  3. inherited from *ribi✻
  4. inherited from ribb — “rib”
  5. inherited from rib
  6. compounded as baldrib — “bald + rib”

Definitions

  1. A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.

    • Leg, bladebone, baldrib, griskin, chine, or chop Profess myself a genuine Philopig
    • Faith, thou art such a spiny baldrib, all the mistresses in the town will never get thee up.
    • Item to Reve for another baldrib [...] Item for a baldrib for the third Bell

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