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Definition of Briskets
1. brisket [n] - See also: brisket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Briskets
Literary usage of Briskets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wheeler's Graded Literary Readers, with Interpretations by William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler (1919)
"Learn the meaning of these words : briskets low: the chest and fore quarters of
the oxen ... CROSSING THE PLAINS What great yoked brutes with briskets low; ..."
2. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"CROSSING THE PLAINS 1 What great yoked brutes with briskets low, ... Their sable
briskets swept the ground, Their cloven feet kept solemn sound. ..."
3. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"CROSSING THE PLAINS 1 What great yoked brutes with briskets low, ... Their sable
briskets swept the ground, Their cloven feet kept solemn sound. ..."
4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Frank Martindale Webster, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard M. Jones (1918)
"Their sable briskets swept the ground, Their cloven feet kept solemn sound.
>° And even now they crush'd the sod With stolid sense of majesty, ..."
5. American Poems (1625-1892) by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1912)
"San Francisco, and here printed by permission] What great yoked brutes with
briskets low, With wrinkled necks like buffalo, With round, brown, liquid, ..."
6. American Agriculturist (1847)
"It should be made from prime fat cows or heifers ; twenty-eight pieces of prime,
from loins and chines, with one rih ,n each,flanks, rumps, plates, briskets ..."
7. The American Agriculturist (1847)
"It should be made from well-fed bullock?, and contain thirty-1 wo pieces of loins,
flanks, rumps, plates, buttocks, and briskets; ten pieces, ..."
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