rasher

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   comparative form of rash

   comparative form of rash: more rash

2. 2

   A strip of bacon

   A strip of bacon; a piece of bacon.

   • He was a man who made his tent comfortable wherever he pitched it, and long before Altamont’s arrival, had done justice to a copious breakfast of fried eggs and broiled rashers, which Mr. Grady had prepared secundum artem.
   • He received us in his quietly genial fashion, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal.
   • He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of bread, and cut off chunks with a clasp-knife, poured his tea into his saucer, and was happy.
3. 3

   A strip, a piece (of something, such as ham, bacon, etc).

   • Now another layer of forcemeat, then rashers of ham, then forcemeat. Cover the surface with three rashers of fat bacon and a bayleaf; cover with paste, and bake for two hours in a moderate oven, covering the top with a piece of[…]
   • “A pound of tea at one-and-three, / And a pot of raspberry jam, Two new-laid eggs, a dozen pegs, / And a pound of rashers of ham.”
   • On March 24 : For breakfast - cocoa, two rashers of bacon, 2 oz. of dry oatmeal, and 1 oz. of cream. For dinner - 2 oz. of cooked meat, […]
4. ›+ 1 more definitionshow fewer

   1. 4

      To cut into rashers.

      • Most of the bacon sold is rashered or prepared as boiling joints in the retail shop, but recently there have been experiments in central arrangements for rashering bacon and its subsequent distribution pre-packed.

The neighborhood

• synonymcollop
• synonymslice
• synonymstrip