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Steak

Beef-steak is a slice of beef fried or broiled. In the north of Scotland a slice of salmon fried is called a “salmon-steak.” Also cod and hake split and fried. (Icelandic, steik, steikja, roast.)

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