martlemas
1Martlemas — Mar tle*mas, n. See {Martinmas}. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …
2martlemas — obs. form of Martinmas …
3Martlemas — see Martinmas …
4martlemas-beef — beef dried in the chimney like bacon, so called, because it is usual to kill the beef for this purpose about the feast of St. Martin, November the eleventh. Ess. and Suff …
5Martinmas — , Martlemas This date, 11 November, is the feast of St Martin of Tours. In medieval and Elizabethan times it was an occasion for an ample feast of meat, because livestock which could not be fed through the winter was being slaughtered. Other… …
6Martinmas — 11 November. The feast day of St Martin of Tours (d. 397), a soldier, then monk and bishop and patron saint of France. The middle of November was the time for salting meat slaughtered for winter there being insufficient feed until the following… …
7martinmas — n. Feast of St. Martin, Nov. 11, martilmas, martlemas …
