[f. BALD a.] A joint of pork cut from nearer the rump than the spare-rib, so called ‘because the bones thereof are made bald and bare of flesh’ (Minsheu). Humorously used of: A lean bony person.
1598. Florio, Pancetta … a bald-rib of porke.
1621. Middleton, Mayor of Q., III. iii. Thou art such a spiny baldrib.
1674. in D’Urfey, Pills (1872), III. 320. His trenchant Blade … ran thro’ the monster’s Bald-rib.
1828. Southey, To A. Cunningham, Wks. III. 316. Baldrib, griskin, chine, or chop.
