rasher

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   comparative form of rash: more rashcomparativeform-of

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   A strip of bacon; a piece of bacon.IrelandUK

   • 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.
   • He received us in his quietly genial fashion, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal.
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   A strip, a piece (of something, such as ham, bacon, etc).IrelandUK

   • 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[…]
   • “A pound of tea at one-and-three, / And a pot of raspberry jam, Two new-laid eggs, a dozen pegs, / And a pound of rashers of ham.”

syn. collop · slice · strip

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   To cut into rashers.transitive

   • Most of the bacon sold is rashered or prepared as boiling joints in the retail shop, but recently there have been experiments in central arrangements for rashering bacon and its subsequent distribution pre-packed.