beef chit

noun

noun

Nautical, Transport Slang The menu in a ship's wardroom.

Give me the beef-chit, and let me see if the chef 'as got the chow right.1935, Ian Hay, Sir Stephen King-Hall, Admirals All: An Amphibious Adventure in Three Acts, page 10:
The tombstone is another name for the beef chit, or menu, while a Bombay Duck is a bloater, a two-eyed steak a kipper, and the bags of mystery or links of love are sausages.1962, John O'London's, volume 6, page 571:

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