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Meanings of charqui in English
Usage of charqui in English
1
They rarely eat meat once a week, and never oftener, and then only the hard dry charqui.
2
The miners who work in the mine itself have twenty-five shillings per month, and are allowed a little charqui.
3
A few maize cobs and a strip or two of charqui was all the travelling store in the scrips his pilgrims carried.
4
Sometimes it was merely cut in strips, roughly rubbed with brine, and hung in the sun to dry into charqui, or jerked beef.
5
Charqui; hence, probably, says McCulloh, the term "jerked," applied to the dried beef of South America.
6
"And we shall neither have CHARQUI, nor hard eggs, nor fillets of ostrich?"
Frequent collocations
Charqui through the time