pope's eye
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- The gland surrounded with fat in the middle of the thigh of an ox or sheep.
- 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter L, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
- "Our good Annie would cook for you; and you should have the hot new milk, and the pope's eye from the mutton; and every foot of you would become a yard in about a fortnight."
- A cut of steak from the buttock muscles of a bovine
Synonyms[edit]
(steak):
- pope's eye steak / pope's eye cut
- popeseye steak / popeseye / popeseye cut
- spider steak / spider cut
Related terms[edit]
- pope's nose (cut of chicken)