collop

The word collop, here, is taken to mean a small piece of bacon.

"Keep the bedroom associated with sleeping rather than being awake," says Collop.

A collop is a measure of land sufficient to graze one cow.

"Your body is in this constant struggle at night between breathing and sleeping," says Collop, who also directs the university sleep center.

"Next best to a collop of beef!"

An individual slice of bacon is a 'rasher', or occasionally a 'collop'.

God knows thou art a collop of my flesh; And for thy sake have I shed many a tear.

The other tank's gun had sheared a collop out of one of the starship's lobes.

A collop is a slice of meat, according to one definition in the Oxford English Dictionary.

As in the Rundale system, the collop was scattered over several different fields, so that good and bad land was equally divided.

The limbs splayed as Ned tried to operate from behind, so the knife cut an accidental collop from the autochthone's thigh.

COLLOP, small slice, piece of flesh.

I remembered the arm; one of the Saxon axes had driven deep into the flesh, hacking a collop of muscle and laying the bone bare.

The saffron pulse ruptured a pouch of stinger reloads and gouged a collop from the sergeant's breastplate beneath.

A large collop of metal vaporized, then combined with atmospheric oxygen in a secondary flash and a shockwave that flung Lock off the deck.

On their return, they had to pass through Clan Mackintosh country and an amount of 'road collop' or passage money was demanded as was the custom.

George Collop was the son of a minor ten ant and a lawyer by training; his background was much humbler than those of his predecessors in office.

"Kids are pretty savvy, they'll try to manipulate parents if they can to keep coming back in the room and parents need to try to avoid giving into to that," says Collop.

The British name Collop Monday is after the traditional dish of the day, consisting of slices of leftover meat (collops of bacon) along with eggs.

Nancy Collop, MD, director, Emory Sleep Center, Atlanta; president, American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Shrove Monday, also known as Collop Monday, was traditionally the last day to cook and eat meat before Lent, when that was a period of fasting from meat.

The third dochter says to her mither: "Mither, bake me a bannock, and roast me a collop, for I'm gaun awa' to seek my fortune."

Thou shalt not want a cup of wine and a collop of venison the while; and if thou lovest woodcraft, thou shalt see such as your north country never witnessed."

Shrove Monday, sometimes known as Collop Monday, Rose Monday, Merry Monday or Hall Monday, is the Monday before Ash Wednesday every year.

In Irish tradition, a collop is defined as the amount of land deemed capable of producing enough to support one family, or the number of cattle that the family could rear by pasture on it.