COLLOP


Meaning of COLLOP in English

I. ˈkäləp noun

( -s )

Etymology: Middle English colope, colhoppe egg fried on bacon

1. : a small piece or slice of meat ; sometimes : a rasher of bacon

2. : a fold of fat flesh

3. : slice , piece , portion

II. ˈkäləp, ˈkȯl- noun

also colp ˈkälp, ˈkȯlp

( -s )

Etymology: Irish Gaelic colpa, literally, full-grown horse or cow

1. : an Irish measure of quantity or quality of land based on the grazing requirements of an adult cow or horse (reckoned as an acre of good land)

2.

a. : a cow or horse or a grazing equivalent in sheep

b. : the pasturage for one of these for a year

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.