Crossword clues for biltong
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biltong \Bil"tong\, n. [S. African.]
Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.
--H. R. Haggard.
Wiktionary
n. (context South Africa English) A South African food categorized by strips of lean meat cured by salting and drying. Similar to American beef jerky.
WordNet
n. meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun
Wikipedia
Biltong is a form of dried, cured meat that originated in South Africa. Various types of meat are used to produce it, ranging from beef and game meats to fillets of ostrich from commercial farms. It is typically made from raw fillets of meat cut into strips following the grain of the muscle, or flat pieces sliced across the grain. It is similar to beef jerky in that they are both spiced, dried meats, however the typical ingredients, taste and production processes differ.
The word biltong is from the Dutch bil ("rump") and tong ("strip" or "tongue").
Usage examples of "biltong".
The nineteen-year-old Colonel Jil-Zat seemed as poised, as relaxed and sure of himself, as Biltong and Koda.
The fire blazed and Maxie crouched on his haunches beside the dummy, laid his rifle beside him, pulled a strip of biltong from his pouch and started to chew on it.
As the animals departed, he chewed at the biltong and drank the water from the hip-flask.
These were all the things I had, apart from some biltong which my mother had made for me.
Here again was legitimate cause for merriment, but in the end matters were compromised by a lump of biltong and a piece of bread being thrown to John from the other end of the room.
Fortunately we have plenty of ammunition and the place is thick with game, so that those of the men who remain strong can kill all the food we want, even shooting on foot, and we women have made a great quantity of biltong by salting flesh and drying it in the sun.
Boers were shouting to their servants, horses were being examined, women were packing the saddle-bags of their husbands and fathers with spare clothes, the pack-beasts were being laden with biltong and other provisions, and so forth.
As it chanced, in my saddle-bags I had some biltong that I had saved against emergencies.
Karenja took the glass and headed off at a trot, while Sloane pulled his pack off and took out a piece of biltong and began chewing laboriously on it.
In these, with nothing visible but their peering eyes and the barrels of their rifles, the Boer marksmen crouched, and munched their biltong and their mealies as the day broke upon the morning of the 23rd.
It was too late to hunt: they could only pull biltong and bread from their packs and make weak jokes about what good food it was.
He and his companions had muttered to each other, had chewed their biltong and tried without success to ask for fresher food from their curious, reserved hosts.
These were accordingly despatched, and having been skinned and cut up, their flesh was severed into long strips to be dried in the burning sun as biltong, which secretly Benita hoped she might never be called upon to eat.
Some of the women wept and all of them brought gifts, they had baskets of jams and preserves, of milk tarts and koeksisters, bags of kudu biltong, and enough food to feed an army on the journey southwards.
Let us hear what they have to say about Lothie and his manne, though I doubt that those souties can tell the difference between a stick of biltong and a rugby ball.