Meaning of ribspare | Babel Free

Definitions

Sparerib.

rare

Examples

“Some twenty years ago—'tis true, / Isaacs, a poor pedestrian Jew, / By wishful inclination prest, / A ribspare stole, already drest; […]”

“25th Decʳ. [1673–1674] I sent to Mr. Hely a ribspare and hoggs puddings, for which hee returned mee a boxe of pills and sermons.”

“The care of our forefathers for the temporal needs of the ministry, is also illustrated by various votes to be gathered from the Town and Parish Records. […] Sent in since Nov. 3: the day I was married: From my good neighbours in town. […] [January] 8, [1698]. The wife of Saml. Sparhawk, a Ribspare […]”

“Master Roberts has sent no deare yet. There is sent up a motten (mutton), a barrel of eggs, fower ribspares, two chaynes (chines), a goose, three drest poultrie, four live poultrie, four hogges cheekes and feet and hames (hams) of two hogges mustered, one bottel of meade, three brace of partridges, and a brace of veasants (pheasants) […]”

“So, in Kent, to wrong-take a person is to take him wrong, to misunderstand him, and a ribspare is a spare rib.”

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