Definitions for gristles

gristles gris·tle

Spelling: [gris-uh l]
IPA: /ˈgrɪs əl/

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

You can make 273 anagrams from letters in gristles (egilrsst).

Definitions for gristles

noun

  1. cartilage, especially in meats.

Origin of gristles

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

Examples for gristles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Word Value for gristles
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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