0 a solid white substance in meat that comes from near the bone and is hard to chew (= crush with the teeth) --
1 a part of a piece of meat that is very hard to chew --
Almost all the men and women wore silver nose-rings hanging from the middle gristle of the nose, and some of them had little hearts hanging from the rings.
Some fibrous tissue (like gristle) is often also involved.
Renny was a giant of a man, with fists like buckets of gristle and bone.
Instead, it has a biological version of a ramjet engine - complete with a turbine of bone and gristle.
It has so much fat; so much gristle; so much bone and so much that is inedible that buying it for a few pence a pound means buying the dearest.
It is easy to decide to abort a woman if there is no risk, but one is getting rid not of a piece of gristle but of a living organism.
If old people buy the cheap cuts of meat, it generally means that they buy meat with a large proportion of bone and gristle.
Paradoxically, too, the centre of the oxtail bone does not consist of marrow but of a form of light gristle.
