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gristle

[gris-uhl] Origin

gris·tle

[gris-uhl]
noun
cartilage, especially in meats.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Frisian, Middle Low German gristal; akin to Old English grost cartillage
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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gristle (ˈɡrɪsəl)
 
n
cartilage, esp when in meat
 
[Old English gristle; related to Old Frisian, Middle Low German gristel]
 
'gristly
 
adj
 
'gristliness
 
n

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gristle
O.E. gristle "cartilage," related to grost "gristle," from a common W.Gmc. word (cf. O.Fris., M.L.G. gristel, O.H.G. crostila).
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