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rashers

rashers is the plural of rasher.

rashers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rasher.

Meaning of rasher

Noun

rasher (plural rashers)

  1. (Ireland, UK) A strip of bacon; a piece of bacon.
    • He was a man who made his tent comfortable wherever he pitched it, and long before Altamont’s arrival, had done justice to a copious breakfast of fried eggs and broiled rashers, which Mr. Grady had prepared secundum artem.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
  2. (Ireland, UK) A strip, a piece (of something, such as ham, bacon, etc).
    • Now another layer of forcemeat, then rashers of ham, then forcemeat. Cover the surface with three rashers of fat bacon and a bayleaf; cover with paste, and bake for two hours in a moderate oven, covering the top with a piece of[…]1874, John Charles Buckmaster, Buckmaster's Cookery: Being an Abridgment of Some of the Lectures Delivered in the Cookery School at the International Exhibition for 1873 and 1874 : Together with a...

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Questions about rashers

What is rashers the plural of?
Rashers is the plural of rasher.

Words near rashers in the dictionary

  1. Rasheed
  2. rashely
  3. rasher
  4. rashered
  5. rashering
  6. rashers
  7. rashes
  8. rashes up
  9. rashest
  10. Rashford
  11. rashful

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