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Date "BELLY-TIMBER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references)

Specialty Definition: BELLY-TIMBER

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Literature1: "And now, Dame Peveril, to dinner, to dinner. The old fox must have his belly-timber, though the hounds have been after him the whole day."- Sir W. Scott. Peveril of the Peak, chap. 48.
2: Belly-timber Food. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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