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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904) · Public Domain

Collop (Hastings' Dictionary)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain

A collop is a slice of meat, but in Job lu-" • he . . maketh coUops of fat on his flanks,' it is used in the now obsolete sense (except in dialects) of ' a thick fold of flt'sh on the body as evidence of a well-fed condition.' Cf. Fuller, Worthies, i. lOfi, ' Fat folk (whose collops stick to tlieir sides) are generally lazy.' J. HASTINGS.

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