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

A deputation waited upon the captain to protest and demand their proper rations of "salt horse."

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.

One of the boys scored a hit by slapping his dime down on the soda fountain marble and bellowing for rum and salt horse.

From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Ferber, Edna

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 Goldfrap, John Henry

"Get a gun of the Old Man, Mr. Eagen," suggested Pulz, "and we'll have something besides salt horse and fish."

From The Mystery by White, Stewart Edward

If I had ’em fed up a bit on salt horse and weevly biscuit I’d make ’em something like in a few weeks.

From Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop by Piffard, Harold