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Collop

//ˈkɒləp// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A slice of meat. Northern-England
  2. 2
    A slice of bacon, a rasher. obsolete
  3. 3
    A roll or fold of flesh on the body.
  4. 4
    A small piece, portion, or slice of something.
Verb
  1. 1
    To cut into collops (thin slices)

    "This induced me to make a further trial, and to get some of them colloped as we do oysters in shells, I swallowed them up myself."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from Swedish kalops (“stewed meat”), from Old Swedish kollops (“slices of beef stew”). Cognate to German Klops (“dish of meat made tender by beating”).

Etymology 2

Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from Swedish kalops (“stewed meat”), from Old Swedish kollops (“slices of beef stew”). Cognate to German Klops (“dish of meat made tender by beating”).

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