Definition of "gristled" []

• Consisting of gristle; tough.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "BLOCK: And Peter Sloma (ph) of Fish Creek, Wisconsin had this to say: While so much of the rest of the news media is destroying any potential we have left for rational public discourse, NPR has made the choice of joining in by serving up this bleeding, gristled hunk of red meat - and over and over again, at that."
• "I now leave you with a recipe for this dish, which through hard work and culinary ingenuity catapults a cut of gristled beef from its rough-hewn, lowly beginnings to delectable and iconic heights."
• "I figured Tommy Lee Jones would be playing his usual gristled, tough sheriff."