Meaning of meat safe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A ventilated cupboard used to keep meat away from flies and other pests.
2. The stomach.
   obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty, mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe) […]”

“It was now dusk, and after I had routed out some biscuits and a cheese in the bar—there was a meat-safe, but it contained nothing but maggots—I wandered on through the silent residential squares to Baker Street […]”

“1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice (The Legacy), London: Heinemann, Secker and Warburg, 1983, Chapter 9, p. 201, Masses of cooked meat were stored in a wire-gauze meat safe with nearly as many flies inside it as there were outside.”

“Under the pepper tree the meat-safe hung, and swung, round and round, slowly, on a wire.”

“She took [the leg of mutton] and put it in the meat safe outside.”

““[…] but Bob ’e jumps inside an’ ’e lets ’im ’ave it plumb square on the meat safe as ’ard as ever the Lord would let ’im put it in.””

“[…] with him carryin’ his guard high, and leavin’ the way to his meat safe open half the time, it was all I could do to hold myself back.”

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