collop — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A slice of meat.

   Usage

   • Northern-England

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   "It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop, And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend! three several times on turning their cattle at the terminations of ridges, they would find the said fare prepared for them on reaching the end of the fourth furrow."

2. A slice of bacon, a rasher.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

3. A roll or fold of flesh on the body.

4. A small piece, portion, or slice of something.

Verb

1. To cut into collops (thin slices)

   Examples

   This induced me to make a further trial, and to get some of them colloped as we do oysters in shells, I swallowed them up myself.

   They colloped it, and spitted skilfully, Then roasted carefully and slipped them off.

   More examples (2)

   I neither egged thee nor colloped thee. If I had egged thee, though mights yet chese.

   There was one fine bullock already butchered and being colloped by the cooking fires of the Burns and several sheep on the way to the same fate.