leaf lard

noun

1. lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.

leaf-lard

noun

1. lard prepared from the leaf fat of a pig

Word History and Origins

Origin of leaf-lard¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Cook a dozen small onions, sliced, in a saucepan with one cup of sweet leaf-lard.

From Project Gutenberg

That day the authorities—the police—had confiscated twenty dressed hogs, and in each porcine carcass they had found four-quart bottles of whisky, artistically imbedded in the leaf-lard fat.

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Standard lard and standard leaflard are lard and leaf-lard respectively, free from rancidity, containing not more than 1% of substances other than fatty acids, not fat, necessarily incorporated therewith in the process of rendering, and standard leaf-lard has an iodine number not greater than 60.

From Project Gutenberg

Leaf-lard is the lard rendered at moderately high temperatures from the internal fat of the abdomen of the hog, excluding that adherent to the intestines.

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He had married, three years previous, a Miss Hindle Higginbothom, the only child of a Chicago leaf-lard magnate of household-word kind of fame, and brother-in-law to his father's one-time law partner, O.J.

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