Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BEEF'-EAT-ER
BEEF'-EAT-ER, n. [beef and eat.]
- One that eats beef.
- A yeoman of the guards, in England.
- The Buphaga, an African bird that feeds on the larvas which nestle under the hides of oxen.
- In popular use, a stout fleshy man.
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