salt horse

American  

noun

Nautical Slang.

1. salted beef; salt junk.

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Etymology

Origin of salt horse

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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salt horse

"My experience in the Josephine, when we were short of water, taught me what it was to be without it, especially when you have to feed on salt horse and hard bread."

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Oliver Optic

In one hold was discovered a number of barrels of "salt horse and pork," but they were all dried up and unfit for human food.

From The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam by John Henry Goldfrap

I supposed he was going to ask me to let the watch break out a barrel of flour, or some salt horse.

From Man Overboard! by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

"Some of that salt horse ain't as sweet as it might be."

From Omoo by Herman Melville

Though he might have been a bad man, all was not lost if he could bake beans well, and boil the salt horse or corned mule that soldiers had to eat, so they were appetizing.

From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck