stickings n.
butcher’s off-cuts laid out on the chopping board, to which they stick.
![]() | Morn. Post (London) 1 June 1/2: Persons wishing to supply the Workhouse [...] with meat of the best quality to consist of Clods and Stickings of Beef. | |
![]() | Morn. Post (London) 11 June 1/3: Wanted at the House of Detention at Clerkenwell, Supplies [...] viz:— [...] good ox beef without bone consistings of clods and stickings. | |
![]() | (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 196/1: The meat (for pies) is bought in ‘pieces’, of the same part as the sausage-makers purchase – the stickings. | |
![]() | Reading Mercury 29 Nov. 3/2: County Gaol, Reading . All Persons Willing to Contract for the supply of [...] Beef (without the bone, in equal proportions of Clods, Stickings and veiny pieces). | |
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![]() | Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. |