Meanings
nounsalt meat (countable and uncountable, plural salt meats)
plural salt meats
- countableuncountableMeat that has been dried and cured with salt for preservation.
Later on, all the tinned meat came to an end, likewise the potatoes, and we lived on salt meat, biscuit, and duff; this fare was served out to all the messes on board, and we, I was going to say, saloon-folk, fared no better than the fo'castle hands.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 196
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