Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mess utensil used by the crew of a merchant ship for holding cooked beef.
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Examples
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"Shove that beef-kid down this way, will yer?" called Bill.
Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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I was about to ascend to the deck my eye happened to light on the bread-barge and beef-kid, which contained the remnants of our last hasty meal.
Typee Herman Melville 1855
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I lingered behind in the forecastle a moment to take a parting glance at its familiar features, and just as I was about to ascend to the deck my eye happened to light on the bread-barge and beef-kid, which contained the remnants of our last hasty meal.
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"Oh, Lord! hold me, somebody, while I faint!" he exclaimed, turning up the whites of his eyes like a dying duck in a thunder-storm, and flinging himself so suddenly backwards into the arms of Harvey that the latter went down stern foremost, landing on the deck with one hand in the beef-kid and the other in the blacking-box, while Markham rolled on the top of him, kicking spasmodically, and simulating the feeble struggles of an expiring person.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886
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a moment to take a parting glance at its familiar features, and just as I was about to ascend to the deck my eye happened to light on the bread-barge and beef-kid, which contained the remnants of our last hasty meal.
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