the tongue of the buffalo, fresh, smoked, or dried, much esteemed as a delicacy.
- 1754  (1907)  Smoking being over . . . I was presented with 10 Buffalo tongues.
- 1873  (1952)  A banquet of baronial proportions was decreed--Buffalo tongues and humps . . . muf[f]les of Moose deer, the tails of Beaver . . . mingled with the varying civilized cates [delicacies] that the markets of Montreal could furnish.
- 1922  Early in the spring [c1855] was begun the . . . baling of . . . buffalo tongues which had been salted and smoked.