middlings
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middlings noun Meat of a hog (or bear) between the shoulder and the ham, a slab or side of bacon.
1863 Robinson Letters (Feb 6) Some body Stold 9 midlings of meat & 7 Joints from John Pitmans wife. 1939 Hall Coll (Sugarlands TN) We cleaned [the bear] and cut it up and cut middlin’s out of it just the same as we was cutting up a hog. 1949 Kurath Word Geog East US 32 In contrast to Northern salt pork and Southern middlin(s) the North Midland has the expression side meat.... In the Valley of Virginia and on the Kanawha side meat stands beside middlin(s), and this Southern term has also gained a foothold in northern West Virginia. 1988 Russell It Happened 9 We cut sections from the “middlins” and hams to use as needed in the kitchen.