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Meanings of
gristle
in English
Portuguese
cartilagem
Catalan
cartílag
Spanish
tejido cartilaginoso
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Tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults.
cartilage
Portuguese
cartilagem
Usage of
gristle
in English
1
The tiny hook is caught painlessly in the
gristle
of his jaw.
2
The
gristle
in the pasty, of course, is that academics run academia.
3
Wash it, and remove the inner and outer skin with the
gristle
.
4
Again and again he stuck the blade into the
gristle
like substance.
5
She twisted the blade, and he heard
gristle
crackling along his vertebrae.
6
Is there nothing to buy at your butchers' but bone and
gristle
?
7
Have the meat, if beef or veal, free of skin and
gristle
.
8
Her teeth sawed through
gristle
and muscle and, with a click, met.
9
Cut away from your beef-steak all the bone, fat,
gristle
,
and skin.
10
In the sky above the Fold, wheeling and turning, the
gristle
-
crows
cawed.
11
Add one-half pound chopped suet, shredded very fine, and all
gristle
removed.
12
The tiny hook is caught painlessly in the
gristle
of his jaws.
13
I quickly choked down the bitter bundle of legs and
gristle
and-
14
The
gristle
attached to joint surfaces and forming certain parts of the skeleton.
15
Some were tough as
gristle
and did their best to look like rocks.
16
Enthralled by their burning heads he felt the moment rise in his
gristle
.
Other examples for "gristle"
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gristle
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
tough gristle
remove gristle
solid gristle
all gristle
assume the gristle
More collocations
Translations for
gristle
Portuguese
cartilagem
tecido cartilaginoso
Catalan
cartílag
Spanish
tejido cartilaginoso
Gristle
through the time
Gristle
across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common