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Definition:4. Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
painting: by Goya, Still life of Sheep's Ribs and Head - The Butcher's counter
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Corned Beef and Cabbage (recipe)
Tip 1: Soak your joint overnight in several changes of water to remove excess salt.
Colin Murphy and Donal O'Dea. The Feckin' Book of Everything Irish. p.256 (2006)
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But if I should describe the kitchen grate, the prodigious pots and kettles, the joints of meat turning on the spits, with many other particulars, perhaps I should be hardly believed;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (17
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His wife was sitting up under the mosquito-net, and for a moment he had the impression of a joint under a meat-cover.
Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter, p.23 (1948)
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if she accepted any refreshment, seemed to do it only for the sake of finding out that Mrs. Collins's joints of meat were too large for her family.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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They were careless, and clumsy, and untidy. They were incapable of dusting a room or cooking a joint.
Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.80 (1935)
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“We’ll move up into the forest after supper, Sassenach,” Jamie said, tearing a joint from the rabbit carcass.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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It was a noble dish of fish that the housekeeper had put on table, and we had a joint of equally choice mutton afterwards, and then an equally choice bird.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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