baldrib

noun

baldrib

noun

Etymology From bald + rib.

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UK, Dated A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.

Leg, bladebone, baldrib, griskin, chine, or chop Profess myself a genuine Philopig1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham:
Faith, thou art such a spiny baldrib, all the mistresses in the town will never get thee up.1840, Thomas Middleton, “The Mayor of Queenborough”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 1, London: Edward Lumley, Chancery Lane, page 174:

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Item to Reve for another baldrib [...] Item for a baldrib for the third Bell1909, J. E. Foster, editor, Churchwardens' Accounts of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, from 1504 to 1635, Cambridge: Printed for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, pages 312-313:

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