Wednesday's Word

Word: Junk (N.)
Definition: piece of indeterminate size

Usage:
“You need a good junk of salt pork to bake a decent pot of beans.”
or
“Throw another junk of wood into that stove.

Also: (V.)
Definition: to divide into pieces

Usage:
“He junked up one hindquarter of that deer and made it all into ‘deerburger’, he calls it.”

(Definition from: "How To Talk Yankee", by Gerald Lewis & Tim Sample, copyright 1979, 1986 by The Thorndike Press; copyright 1989 by the First North Country Press)