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BEEF (through O. Fr. boef, mod. boeuf, from See also:Lat. See also:bos, bovis, ox, Gr. f3oiir, which show the ultimate connexion with the See also:Sanskrit go, gaits, ox, and thus with " cow")  , the flesh of the ox, cow or See also:bull, as used for See also:food . The use of the See also:French word for the See also:meat, while the Saxon name was retained for the See also:animal, has been often noticed, and paralleled with the use of veal, mutton and pork . " See also:Beef " is also used, especially in the plural " beeves," for the ox itself, but usually in an archaic way . " Corned " or "See also:corn" beef is the flesh cured by salting, i.e. sprinkling with "corns" or granulated particles of See also:salt . "Collared" beef is so called from the See also:roll or See also:collar into which the meat is pressed, after extracting the bones . " Jerked" beef, i.e. meat cut into See also:long thin slices and dried in the See also:sun, like "See also:biltong" (q.v.), comes through the See also:Spanish-See also:American charque, frcmm ccharqui, the Peruvian word for this See also:species of preserved meat . For " Beef-eater" see YEOMEN OF TIHE GUARD .

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