salt meat

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salt meat

noun salt meats

countable, uncountable Meat that has been dried and cured with salt for preservation. Later on, all the tinned meat came to an end, likewise the potatoes, and we lived on salt meat, biscuit, and duff; this fare was served out to all the messes on board, and we, I was going to say, saloon-folk, fared no better than the fo'castle hands.

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@misc{salt_meat_2026,
  title = {salt meat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/salt%20meat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}