salt horse

I let the men tow a hook when they want, because fish makes a welcome change from salt horse.

His ambition was to be general seaman officer, a 'salt horse', and serve in destroyers.

"The last of the salted horse meat, dressed and sauced to disguise the taste."

It was frequently called "junk" or "salt horse".

Oh, there was a small beaker of water, a little salt horse, and some salt-water-soaked sea biscuit - enough to keep us alive to Tagalag.

Percentage of salted horses.

Three times the galley had been washed out, and the men, in the forecastle awash, contented themselves with hard tack and cold salt horse.

No: it looks like Brest or Toulon all over again: steady blockade until we are down to salt horse and Old Weevil's wedding-cake.

Salted horse meat sausages called kazy are produced as a regional delicacy by the Kazakhs in Bayan-Ölgii aimag.

The first few years were difficult for a 'salt horse' from the Navy, but eventually some good progress was made and life outside the Armed Forces was bearable.

Then there are home-made fifes and whistles and drums, combs covered with paper, extemporized triangles, and bones made from ribs of salt horse such as negro minstrels use.

He sat astride a fine salted horse, and at his right hand rode his eldest son, a man full grown, straight and strong, a man to delight his father's heart.

Accordingly, leaving the wagon by a charming stream that wound and gurgled over a bed of granite, we mounted our salted horses, which were part of Anscombe's outfit, and set forth rejoicing.

Stephen noticed that Hyde was left-handed, which gave him an awkward air; but his left hand was obviously powerful, obviously used to salt horse; and using immense pressure he was dividing the lump into reasonable gobbets.

At one class, after hearing the first act of Mr. Rapp's poetic play in progress, "Dreams of the Salt Horse," Ms. Norman said that first drafts of plays are often "like character auditions."

In 1885, William Worthington Jordan bought a tract (fifty thousand square kilometers) of land from the Ovambo chief Kambonde for three hundred pounds, paid as twenty-five firearms, one salted horse, and a cask of brandy.

I have had no time to send for anything, not so much as a sheep or a ham or a bottle of wine; so I am afraid it will be junk, salt horse and Old Weevil's wedding cake for most of the voyage, with four-water grog to wet it.

- that it was done, and we had arrived, and I had Pandora's Box (my mail bag) in hand, and was in the lively hope of something eatable for dinner instead of salt horse, tinned mutton, duff without any plums, and pie fruit, which now make up our whole repertory.