Citations:belly-timber

Noun: food

 * 1) * 1634, William Wood, Nevv Englands Prospect: A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America Commonly Called Nevv England, Discovering the State of that Countrie both as it Stands to our New-come English Planters and to the Old Native Inhabitants, Laying Downe that which may both Enrich the Knowledge of the Mind-travelling Reader or Benefit the Future Voyager, London: Printed ... by Tho. Cates, for Iohn Bellamie and to be sold ... neere the Royal Exchange, 820329636; reprinted as Wood's New-England's Prospect [Publications of the ; III], Boston, Mass.: Published for the Society by John Wilson and Son, 1865,  16799116, page 75:
 * Having done with their moſt needful cloathings and ornamentall deckings; may it pleaſe you to feaſt your eyes with their belly-timbers; which I ſuppoſe would be but ſtibium to weake ſtomacks as they cooke it, though never so good of it ſelfe.
 * 1) *1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London: Printed by J. G. for Richard Marriot, under Saint Dunstan's Church in, 43488441; republished as Henry G[eorge] Bohn, editor, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler; with Variorum Notes, Selected Principally from Grey and Nash, volume I, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1859,  224652699, part 1, canto 1:
 * And tho' knights errant, as some think, / Of old did neither eat nor drink, / Because when thorough deserts vast, / And regions desolate, they past, / Where belly-timber above ground, / Or under, was not to be found
 * 1) * 1667,, Scarronnides, or, Virgile Travestie: A Mock-poem, on the First and Fourth Books of s Ænænis in English, Burlésque [...], London: Printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome, 222029430; republished as Scarronnides, or, Virgile Travestie. A Mock-poem, on the First & Fourth Books of Virgil's Ænæis in English Burlesque, 9th edition, London: Printed for Charles Brome, at the Gun, the West end of St. Paul's Church, 1709,  13595638, page 27:
 * Only Æneas he was waking; / Who whilſt the Night was dark and o'er-caſt, / Like one that had an exc'llent fore-caſt, / Lay thinking now his Guts grew limber, / How they might get more Belly-timber:
 * 1) * 1718,, "Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind", in Poems on Several Occasions, London: J[acob] Tonson and J. Barber, 458176403, canto III; republished in ; , The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper; including the Series Edited, with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Dr. Samuel Johnson: And the Most Approved Translations. The Additional Lives by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A. In Twenty-one Volumes. Hughes, Sheffield, Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Fenton, Gay, volume X, London: Printed for J. Johnson [et al.], 1810,  163876838, page 202:
 * The strength of every other member / Is founded on your belly-timber; / The qualms or raptures of your blood, / Rise in proportion to your food;
 * 1) * 1749, ;, transl., The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. A New Translation, from the Best French Edition, London: J. Osborn, 779187431; republished as The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane. Translated from the French of Le Sage by Tobias Smollett, M.D. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean [et al.], 1819,  697631796, page 163:
 * I don't trouble myself with clothes, linen, and other useless baggage; but resolving to have nothing superfluous, fill my knapsack with belly-timber, my razors, and a wash-ball.
 * 1) * 1820 March,, The Monastery. A Romance. In Three Volumes, Edinburgh: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, bookseller to the King, Edinburgh, 874942027; republished as The Monastery; a Romance [Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley; III], Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson & Co. London, 1824,  489926624, pages 67–68:
 * I hope, a'gad, they have not forgotten my trunk-mails of apparel amid the ample provision they have made for their own belly-timber – Mercy, a'gad, I were finely holped up if the vesture has miscarried among the thievish Borderers!
 * 1) * 1882, Frederick W[illiam] P[earce] Jago, The Ancient Language, and the Dialect of Cornwall, with an Enlarged Glossary of Cornish Provincial Words, Truro: Netherton & Worth; reprinted as Cambridge:, 2014, ISBN 978-1-108-07166-6, page 115:
 * Belly-tember. Good and solid food.
 * 1) * 1820 March,, The Monastery. A Romance. In Three Volumes, Edinburgh: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, bookseller to the King, Edinburgh, 874942027; republished as The Monastery; a Romance [Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley; III], Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson & Co. London, 1824,  489926624, pages 67–68:
 * I hope, a'gad, they have not forgotten my trunk-mails of apparel amid the ample provision they have made for their own belly-timber – Mercy, a'gad, I were finely holped up if the vesture has miscarried among the thievish Borderers!
 * 1) * 1882, Frederick W[illiam] P[earce] Jago, The Ancient Language, and the Dialect of Cornwall, with an Enlarged Glossary of Cornish Provincial Words, Truro: Netherton & Worth; reprinted as Cambridge:, 2014, ISBN 978-1-108-07166-6, page 115:
 * Belly-tember. Good and solid food.
 * 1) * 1882, Frederick W[illiam] P[earce] Jago, The Ancient Language, and the Dialect of Cornwall, with an Enlarged Glossary of Cornish Provincial Words, Truro: Netherton & Worth; reprinted as Cambridge:, 2014, ISBN 978-1-108-07166-6, page 115:
 * Belly-tember. Good and solid food.