salt horse

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. salt beef US,obsolete,uncountable
  2. A naval officer or rating whose training and experience have qualified him as a seaman rather than in any specialised trade. UK,countable

词形变化

salt horses plural

词源

From the fact that horse meat was considered especially unappetizing and rarely eaten, but that the meat had been so heavily salted and dried that it could just be horse meat passed off as beef.
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