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beat meat 
dried meat, beaten into a pulpy mass.
See also: pemmican piled meat pounded meat ruhiggan
- 1775 (1934) By the middle of January we ware so short that we could not afford more than a Small handfull of Dry'd beat meat . . . and about 4 ounses of other Meat pr Man Each Day.
- 1872 (1883) Pemmican, the favourite food of the Indian and the half-breed voyager, can be made from the flesh of any animal, but it is nearly altogether composed of buffalo meat; the meat is first cut into slices, then dried either by fire or in the sun, and then pounded or beaten out into a thick flaky substance; in this state it is put into a large bag made from the hide of the animal, the dry pulp being soldered down into a hard solid mass by melted fat being poured over it--the quantity of fat is nearly half the total weight, forty pounds of fat going to fifty pounds of "beat meat". . . .
- 1953 Occasionally the reader . . . may want to know more about "beat meat" than the journals reveal.
- 1775 (1934) By the middle of January we ware so short that we could not afford more than a Small handfull of Dry'd beat meat . . . and about 4 ounses of other Meat pr Man Each Day.