Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Brisket

Brisket ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Old English bruskette, Old French bruschet, French bréchet, brichet; prob. of Celtic origin; compare Welsh brysced the breast of a slain animal, brisket, Corn. vrys breast, Armor. brusk, bruched, the front of the chest, Gael. brisgein the cartilaginous part of a bone.]

[See Illust. of Beef.]

That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.