backfat

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a layer of choice fat found between the skin and muscles of a well-fed animal, especially along the back.

1801

Some of the men [are] at work making horse sledges, others melting or boiling back (Buffaloe) fat to put in the Pimican. . . .

1913

We took the tongue, the boss and the backfat and rode back to camp.

1923

The Indians killed the buffalo recklessly . . . they killed for the tongues and backfats alone.

1965

A bull caribou in the autumn may weigh 300 pounds, and a fifth of that weight may be fat--perhaps 40 pounds in a single slab of back fat. . . .