| meat grinder | any action resulting in injury or destruction, the meat grinder of politics destroyed his reputation, allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder |
meatpacking
meat packing
meat-packing business | wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) |
butcher shop
meat market | a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold |
cleaver
meat cleaver
chopper | a butcher's knife having a large square blade |
| meat counter | counter where meats are displayed for sale |
| meat grinder | a mill for grinding meat |
| meat hook | a strong pointed hook from which the carcasses of animals are hung |
| meat house | a small house (on a farm) where meat is stored |
| meat safe | a safe for storing meat |
| meat thermometer | a thermometer that is inserted into the center of a roast (with the top away from the heat source), used to measure how well done the meat is |
smokehouse
meat house | a small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish |
hooks
meat hooks
maulers | large strong hand (as of a fighter), wait till I get my hooks on him |
| meat and potatoes | the fundamental part, successful negotiation is the meat and potatoes of arbitration |
kernel
substance core
center
centre
essence
gist
heart heart and soul
inwardness marrow
meat
nub
pith
sum
nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
canned meat
tinned meat | meat preserved in a can or tin |
| stew meat | tough meat that needs stewing to be edible |
breast
white meat | meat carved from the breast of a fowl |
| meat | the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food |
| dark meat | the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food |
| raw meat | uncooked meat |
| red meat | meat that is dark in color before cooking (as beef, venison, lamb, mutton) |
variety meat
organs | edible viscera of a butchered animal |
cut
cut of meat | a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass |
side
side of meat | a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food |
jerky
jerked meat
jerk | meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun |
| sausage meat | any meat that is minced and spiced and cooked as patties or used to fill sausages |
lunch meat
luncheon meat | any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold |
| coconut coconut meat | the edible white meat of a coconut, often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries |
meat loaf
meatloaf | a baked loaf of ground meat |
| meat pie | pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough |
meat packer
packer | a wholesaler in the meat-packing business |
yellow bedstraw
yellow cleavers
Our Lady's bedstraw
Galium verum | common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw, North America and Europe and Asia |
cleavers
clivers
goose grass catchweed
spring cleavers
Galium aparine | annual having the stem beset with curved prickles, North America and Europe and Asia |
| kernel meat | the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone, black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell |
flesh-eating(a)
meat-eating(a)
zoophagous | (of animals) carnivorous |