salt pork

noun

pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.

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Origin of salt pork

First recorded in 1715–25

Words nearby salt pork

salt of the earth, the, salt of the earth, ye are the, salt out, salt pan, salt pit, salt pork, salt river, salt shake, salt shaker, salt solution, salt spoon

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Example sentences from the Web for salt pork

It's salt-pork bones and bad beans you're going to get if I can fix it, you hungry hogs!
By Right of Purchase|Harold Bindloss
Such chances of game scarcely enriched our larder; and the salt-pork barrel was our constant reliance.
Years of My Youth|William Dean Howells
He went into the store with a staggering step, and the rank smell of cheese and salt-pork nauseated him.
The Girl From Keller's|Harold Bindloss
By some cursed accident, he said, the bunkers had been filled with barrels of salt-pork and flour!
If, Yes and Perhaps|Edward Everett Hale

For the basting she used a piece of salt-pork fat stuck on a long fork and set on fire.
The Christmas Kalends of Provence|Thomas A. Janvier

British Dictionary definitions for salt pork

salt pork

noun

pork, esp the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly, that has been cured with salt

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