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pope's eye

British  

noun

  1. (in sheep and cows) a gland in the middle of the thigh surrounded by fat

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. (in Scotland) denoting a cut of steak

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Our good Annie would cook for you; and you should have the hot new milk and the pope's eye from the mutton; and every foot of you would become a yard in about a fortnight.'

From Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Of black-faced mutton it makes a fine roast, and the piece of fat in it called the pope's eye, is considered a delicate morceau by epicures.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various

He stopped short, having caught a look from the pope's eye, searching his face intently.

From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos

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