What is "gristly"

Usage examples of "gristly".

Tip wagged her tail amiably, knowing that this was the place where she received those juicy titbits and gristly beef bones.

But once he had paddled her to the spot she had selected, she produced long strands of twisted fiber and deer gut, and to these she tied fish heads and chunks of gristly bear meat, throwing the lines aft.

But the Seer Lord's creature was not eighteen feet tall and composed of fused bone, black mummied flesh, knobs of gristly cartilage, and plates of gleaming-blue chitin.

For example, the petrified creatures in the cavern of the Gate were not eighteen feet tall and composed of fused bone, black mummied flesh, knobs of gristly cartilage and plates of gleaming-blue chitin.

There were, in the fish category, some Malabar rays, enormous gristly things, ten feet long, weighing 600 pounds, the pectoral fin triangular in the midst of a slightly humped back, the eyes fixed in the extremities of the face, beyond the head, and which floated like weft, and looked sometimes like an opaque shutter on our glass window.

The only pieces of pork left were ends and gristly bits, the broccoli was all gone and there was only a smidgen of potato.

The sky was gray and gristly, with interesting bruises, the street damp and stickered with leaves.