subs. (Winchester College).—The end of a shoulder of mutton; further explained by quotation.
1866. MANSFIELD, School-Life at Winchester College, p. 84. His meal [dinner] took place at six o’clock P.M. in College (in Commoners’ it was at one); it was ample in quantity, and excellent in quality. That of the Præfects was nicely served in joints, that of the Inferiors was divided into portions, (‘Dispars;’) there were, if I remember rightly, six of these to a shoulder, and eight to a leg of mutton, the other joints being divided in like proportion. All these ‘Dispars’ had different names; the thick slice out of the centre was called ‘a Middle Cut,’ that out of the shoulder a ‘Fleshy,’ the ribs ‘Racks,’ the loin ‘Long Dispars’; these were the best, the more indifferent were the end of the shoulder, or ‘CAT’S HEAD,’ the breast, or ‘Fat Flab,’ &c., &c.
