WordNet
n. corned beef simmered with onions and cabbage and usually other vegetables [syn: New England boiled dinner]
Usage examples of "boiled dinner".
He didn't say nothin, but when I went over to the stove to check on the cabbage - I was makin a boiled dinner that night, I remember like it was yesterday - he got a chunk of rock maple out of the woodbox and whacked me in the small of the back with it.
And bubbling fragrantly in a pot on the oil range was a boiled dinner: cabbage, turnips, pota- toes, onions, salt beet and moose meat.
Urick meant a choice of two big roasts, or a New England boiled dinner.
His clasped hands rested peacefully on the edge of the rug, and the heat, which made me feel like a New England boiled dinner, didnt seem to make him even warm.
His clasped hands rested peacefully on the edge of the rug, and the heat, which made me feel like a New England boiled dinner, didn’.