Rasher
adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A strip of bacon; a piece of bacon. Ireland, UK
"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."
- 2 a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America wordnet
- 3 A strip, a piece (of something, such as ham, bacon, etc). Ireland, UK
"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[…]"
- 1 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."
- 1 comparative form of rash: more rash comparative, form-of
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From rash + -er.
Unknown origin. Said to be an alteration of rasure.
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