Crossword clues for charqui
charqui
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Charqui \Char"qui\, n. [Sp. A term used in South America,
Central America, and the Western United States.]
Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind
and sun.
--Darwin.
Wiktionary
n. (context South and Central America Western US English) jerky
Usage examples of "charqui".
When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our mate, and were quite comfortable.
In exchange for seven ready saddled horses of the Argentine breed, 100 pounds of charqui, or dried meat, several measures of rice, and leather bottles for water, the Indians agreed to take twenty ounces of gold as they could not get wine or rum, which they would have preferred, though they were perfectly acquainted with the value of gold.
Poked into it was a small chunk of dried meat, charqui, jerked llama steak.
The verb "jerk" is corrupted from the Chilian word, charqui, meaning sun-dried meat.