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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—J

Jerked

[beef], a corruption of the Peruvian word charqui, meat cut into strips and dried in the sun to preserve it. (See Mayne Reid's novels.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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