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

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

Get your fire started right away, and see what salt horse and biscuit you can scare up.

From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Thomson, Edward William

"I always say there's nothing in foreign parts to match the cakes and cream of Devonshire," he said, "and you'd know it if you lived on ship's biscuit and salt horse, my girl."

From The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas by Strang, Mrs. Herbert

We agreed that salt horse, or fresh horse, either, did not strike our fancy.

From The Voyage of the Hoppergrass by Pearson, Edmund Lester

Water was needed, and there is refreshment in tropic fruits after a diet of salt horse and hardtack.

From Spanish Doubloons by Kenyon, Camilla