salt pork

pork cured with salt, especially the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly.

Origin of salt pork

First recorded in 1715–25

It's salt-pork bones and bad beans you're going to get if I can fix it, you hungry hogs!

By Right of Purchase |Harold Bindloss
Such chances of game scarcely enriched our larder; and the salt-pork barrel was our constant reliance.

Years of My Youth |William Dean Howells
He went into the store with a staggering step, and the rank smell of cheese and salt-pork nauseated him.

The Girl From Keller's |Harold Bindloss
By some cursed accident, he said, the bunkers had been filled with barrels of salt-pork and flour!

If, Yes and Perhaps |Edward Everett Hale

For the basting she used a piece of salt-pork fat stuck on a long fork and set on fire.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence |Thomas A. Janvier

salt pork

pork, esp the fat pork taken from the back, sides, and belly, that has been cured with salt