gristle
[gris-uh l]
- cartilage, especially in meats.
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Origin of gristle
before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Frisian, Middle Low German gristal; akin to Old English grost cartillage
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Examples from the Web for gristle
Contemporary Examples
Savor the perfectly pitched ear required to turn a simple phrase like “a dumpling, some knurled pouch of gristle.”
Historical Examples
A knuckle requires more boiling in proportion to its weight, than any other joint, to render the gristle soft and tender.
Jonadab weighs pretty close to two hundred, and most of it's gristle.
Cape Cod StoriesJoseph C. Lincoln
Does she wear a spritsail-yard through the gristle of her nose?
An Old Sailor's YarnsNathaniel Ames
We choose our dinner not by the wrappers, but by the veining and gristle of the meat within.
PipefulsChristopher Morley
The tiny hook is caught painlessly in the gristle of his jaw.
Days OffHenry Van Dyke
gristle
- cartilage, esp when in meat
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Word Origin
Old English gristle; related to Old Frisian, Middle Low German gristel
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Word Origin and History for gristle
n.
Old English gristle "cartilage," related to grost "gristle," from a common West Germanic word (cf. Old Frisian and Middle Low German gristel, Old High German crostila, Middle High German gruschel) of obscure origin.
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