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Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce. [Obs.] King.

, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like a galley slave." Macaulay.-- Galley slice (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large galley. Knight.

A small piece of flesh; a slice. [Obs.] The rest in giggots cut, they spit. Chapman.

To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.

A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.

Of or pert. to the microtome or microtomy; cutting thin slices.

A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.

A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

nt Egyptians wrote. It was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and pressed.

Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow.

The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow. Plowshare bone (Anat.), the pygostyle.

ng by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. Sir I. Newton. The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron. Sandys.

To slash; to hack; to slice. [Obs.] Rushing of helms and riving plates asunder. Spenser.

A thin slice of bacon.

A kind of sausage, made in a bag of tripe, sliced and fried, famous among the Dutch of New Amsterdam and still known, esp. in New Jersey.

Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried. [Local, New York]

ch is cut into lengths, and made into sacks by turning the bark inside out, and leaving a slice of the wood for a bottom. -- To give the sack to or get the sack, to discharge, or be discharged, from employment; to jilt, or be jilted. [Slang]

Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.

A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice. Specifically: --

To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices. Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root. Bacon.