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meat safe

meat safe noun: a ventilated cupboard used to keep meat away from flies and other pests.

meat safe: a ventilated cupboard used to keep meat away from flies and other pests
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Noun

meat safe (plural meat safes)

  1. A ventilated cupboard used to keep meat away from flies and other pests.
    • […] her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty, mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe) […]1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 2nd book (Reaping), page 227
    • 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 […]1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Book 2, Chapter 8”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book II (The Earth under the Martians), page 277
  2. (obsolete, slang) The stomach.
    • “[…] 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.”1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 10, in Rodney Stone,, London: Smith, Elder, page 172
    • […] 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.1908, Sewell Ford, chapter 14, in Side-Stepping with Shorty, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 221

meat safe meaning in Tamil and Myanmar

meat safe in Tamil

இறைச்சிப்பேழை

meat safe in Myanmar

ventilated cupboard
ကြောင်အိမ် kraung-im

Forms of meat safe

pluralmeat safes
alternative formmeatsafe

Words formed from meat safe

Questions about meat safe

What does meat safe mean?
Meat safe means a ventilated cupboard used to keep meat away from flies and other pests.
What is meat safe in Tamil?
Meat safe in Tamil is இறைச்சிப்பேழை. See Meat safe meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is meat safe?
Meat safe is a noun.
What is the plural of meat safe?
The plural of meat safe is meat safes.

Words near meat safe in the dictionary

  1. meat racks
  2. meat raffle
  3. meat raffles
  4. meat rod
  5. meat rods
  6. meat safe
  7. meat safes
  8. meat sauce
  9. meat sauces
  10. meat scepter
  11. meat scepters

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