The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mince-meat \Mince"-meat`\, n. Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.
Usage examples of "mince-meat".
Blackfriars Bridge, and Blackfriars Road, Mr. George sedately marches to a street of little shops lying somewhere in that ganglion of roads from Kent and Surrey, and of streets from the bridges of London, centring in the far-famed elephant who has lost his castle formed of a thousand four-horse coaches to a stronger iron monster than he, ready to chop him into mince-meat any day he dares.
Oh, you was not there, Sir Philip--well, he says, that in his son’s library, there are a thousand books, and among them, a Bible and prayer book bound together--one jewel in the dung-hill --but that is not what he says--it seems this unlucky prayer-book is gnawed to mince-meat by the mice, and not another book in the library touched.