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dry stock

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noun

  1. cattle that are raised for meat

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You might as well ask the fakir who has held his arm upright for twenty years, till it has stiffened there, to restore the dry stock by exercise.

From Questionable Shapes by Howells, William Dean

I think I have more than my original capital on the ground, and this year I ought to be able to sell between two and three hundred head of steer and dry stock.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann

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