gristle

Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪsəl/

The English word “gristle” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.
Bone not yet hardened by age and hard work.

Etymology

From Middle English gristel, grystyl, from Old English gristel (“gristle, cartilage”), Proto-West Germanic *gristl, of obscure origin; possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language. Seemingly equivalent to a diminutive of Old English grist (“a grinding”), equivalent to modern English grist + -le; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”). Cognate with Old Frisian gristel,…

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