Definition of "sowbelly" []

• Informal Salt pork. (noun)

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• "Dinky-Dunk ever to speak of it as "sowbelly" or even as a "slice of grunt" again."
• "I shall never again eat meat that will taste as good as the fried "sowbelly" did then, accompanied by "flapjacks" and plenty of good, strong coffee."
• "They had a little creek-bottom farm not far north of Pickles Gap, but the soil was poor and the family had little to eat but sowbelly and beans."