Definitions for gristle

gristle gris·tle

Spelling: [gris-uh l]
IPA: /ˈgrɪs əl/

Gristle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in gristle (egilrst).

Definitions for gristle

noun

  1. cartilage, especially in meats.

Origin of gristle

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Frisian, Middle Low German gristal; akin to Old English grost cartillage

Examples for gristle

Savor the perfectly pitched ear required to turn a simple phrase like “a dumpling, some knurled pouch of gristle.”

The tiny hook is caught painlessly in the gristle of his jaw.

I remember a child, who on tasting the gristle of sturgeon, asked what gristle was?

His gristle is hardening into something like his stern old father's backbone.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

We choose our dinner not by the wrappers, but by the veining and gristle of the meat within.

A knuckle requires more boiling in proportion to its weight, than any other joint, to render the gristle soft and tender.

Jonadab weighs pretty close to two hundred, and most of it's gristle.

He was dried up to gristle and bone, and shook with chills every third night.

Does she wear a spritsail-yard through the gristle of her nose?

Word Value for gristle
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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