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Meanings of gristle in English

Portuguese
cartilagem
Catalan
cartílag
Spanish
tejido cartilaginoso

Tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults.

        cartilagem
        Usage of gristle in English
        1
        The tiny hook is caught painlessly in the gristle of his jaw.
        Days Off, and Other Digressions
        2
        The gristle in the pasty, of course, is that academics run academia.
        The Guardian
        3
        Wash it, and remove the inner and outer skin with the gristle.
        The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) / Cooking, Toilet and Household R...
        4
        Again and again he stuck the blade into the gristle like substance.
        Under the Ocean to the South Pole; Or, the Strange Cruise of the...
        5
        She twisted the blade, and he heard gristle crackling along his vertebrae.
        Sons of the Oak
        6
        Is there nothing to buy at your butchers' but bone and gristle?
        The Scarlet Gospels
        7
        Have the meat, if beef or veal, free of skin and gristle.
        Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
        8
        Her teeth sawed through gristle and muscle and, with a click, met.
        Anno Dracula
        9
        Cut away from your beef-steak all the bone, fat, gristle, and skin.
        Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats, by Miss ...
        10
        In the sky above the Fold, wheeling and turning, the gristle-crows cawed.
        The skein of lament
        11
        Add one-half pound chopped suet, shredded very fine, and all gristle removed.
        The International Jewish Cook Book / 1600 Recipes According to t...
        12
        The tiny hook is caught painlessly in the gristle of his jaws.
        Who is mark twain?
        13
        I quickly choked down the bitter bundle of legs and gristle and-
        John Dies at the End
        14
        The gristle attached to joint surfaces and forming certain parts of the skeleton.
        Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
        15
        Some were tough as gristle and did their best to look like rocks.
        Wizardborn
        16
        Enthralled by their burning heads he felt the moment rise in his gristle.
        Complete Books of Blood
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        Catalan
        cartílag
        Gristle through the time
        Gristle across language varieties
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