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gizzard

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The gizzard , also referred to as the ventriculus , gastric mill , and gigerium , is an organ found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs ( dinosaurs , birds , pterosaurs , crocodiles and alligators ), earthworms , some gastropods ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A portion of the esophagus of either a bird or an annelid that contains ingested grit and is used to grind up ingested food before it is transferred to the stomach.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gizzard \Giz"zard\, n. [F. g['e]sier, L. gigeria, pl., the cooked entrails of poultry. Cf. Gigerium .] (Anat.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Add the chicken gizzards and livers and saute for 5 minutes. ▪ His face is transformed as he sticks his fist into imaginary roasters and grabs for gizzards, pulls out the squishy stuff. ▪ Remove the wing tips and reserve with ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stomach of a bird," late 14c., from Old French gisier (Modern French gésier ) "entrails, giblets (of a bird)," probably from Vulgar Latin *gicerium , dissimilated from Latin gigeria (neuter plural) "cooked entrails of a fowl," a delicacy in ancient Rome, ...

Usage examples of gizzard.

Against such a peril I had provided certain amulets made of the stone alectorian, which groweth in the gizzard of a cock hatched on a moonless night when Saturn burneth in a human sign and the lord of the third house is in the ascendant.

They want to see neck bones, gizzards, oxtails, and dirty rice on the menu, not potage of cauliflower with caviar, roast duck in port sauce, or feuillet of squab.

He was more than partial to thick giblet soup, the toughness of gizzard held no fear for him and stuffed, roast heart no symbol.

Friends were mostly naked, and another score of Picts died howling or moaning with Pictish arrows through their gizzards.

Plath once described the male genitalia as resembling a turkey neck with gizzards, but of course she was a poet.

Against such a peril I had provided certain amulets made of the stone alectorian, which groweth in the gizzard of a cock hatched on a moonless night when Saturn burneth in a human sign and the lord of the third house is in the ascendant.

Among other things he was given to comprehend the change in Bibbs, and why the zinc-eater was not putting a lump in the operator's gizzard as of yore.

As I was going out I stopped where Theodore Horstmann was turning out some old Cattleyas trianae and growled at him, "You're going to get shot in the gizzard.

I have excellent stewed rice, bamboo shoots, fermented bean curd, pig gizzard, and plenty of cold tea.

You want me considered opinion, them fellers went over the Wall, they did, fed up to their gizzards with the commander and the whole glorious Ninth fucking Legion.

She could be unexpectedly sweet and thoughtful, having his slippers toasting at the fire when he came home at night, fussing affectionately about his wet feet and interminable head colds, remembering that he always liked the gizzard of the chicken and three spoonfuls of sugar in his coffee.

Be ye so anxious to be oped up for the sun to bake your drunkard’s gizzard?

Then there were the main dishes: fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, chicken pot pie, baked chicken, salmon croquettes, catfish, meat loaf, oxtail stew, smothered pork chops, neck bones and rice, braised turkey legs, Swiss steak, and fried chicken livers and gizzards.

The days passed, dissolving into each other under the force of the returning rain, and despite chills fevers diarrhoea they stayed alive, improving their shelter by pulling down the lower branches of sundris and mangroves, drinking the red milk of nipa‑fruits, acquiring the skills of survival, such as the power of strangling snakes and throwing sharpened sticks so accurately that they speared multicoloured birds through their gizzards.

I'd buy what we call trash fish: gizzard shad, catfish, carp, and eel, really the cheapest fish there is.