ˈhorse-meat
[See meat.]
1. Food or provender for horses.
| 1404 Durham MS. Sacr. Roll, j sythe pro horsmet falcand. 1475 Bk. Noblesse 30 Finding bothe horsmete and mannys⁓mete to youre soudeours riding be the contre. 1528 Sir B. Tuke in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. I. 286, I sent a phisician..promysing hym a mark by day, horsmete, and mans mete. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 256 Oats, and all mixed Corns called Horse-meat, are Harvested somtimes with two reaping hooks. 1742 Fielding J. Andrews ii. ii, The sum due for horsemeat was twelve shillings. |
2. = horse-flesh 1.
| 1853 S. N. Carvalho Jrnl. 1 Feb. in J. Bigelow Mem. J. C. Fremont (1856) xvii. 441 He sent a Mexican..with cooked horsemeat. 1868 All Year Round 22 Feb. 252/2 Horse-meat is a common..article of food. 1870 Food Jrnl. 1 Dec. 620 The almost impossibility of obtaining beef and mutton naturally forced the use of horsemeat upon the people. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 10/1 Every day the purveyors and the consumers of horsemeat increase in numbers. 1910 Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 1/5 The price of horse meat was 3½d. a lb. 1972 T. P. McMahon Issue of Bishop's Blood (1937) xi. 171 A very suave-type fellow then came to Hymie with a tale about..buying frozen horse meat to meet the chain's need for huge quantities of frozen beef. |