Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

salt horse

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English

Syllables
salt horse
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

salt beef

American usage; Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

A naval officer or rating whose training and experience have qualified him as a seaman rather than in any specialised trade.

British usage; Countable

Etymology

From the fact that horse meat was considered especially unappetizing and rarely eaten, but that the meat had been so heavily salted and dried that it could just be horse meat passed off as beef.

Usage

Inflected Forms

salt horses (plural)

Questions

What does salt horse mean?
salt beef
Where does salt horse come from?
From the fact that horse meat was considered especially unappetizing and rarely eaten, but that the meat had been so heavily salted and dried that it could just be horse meat passed off as beef.

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