Free of French meat (7)
I believe the answer is:
deliver
'free' is the definition.
(delivering is a kind of freeing)
'of french meat' is the wordplay.
'of french' becomes 'de'.
'meat' becomes 'liver' (liver is a kind of meat).
'de'+'liver'='DELIVER'
(Other definitions for deliver that I've seen before include "Consign" , "Bring to its destination - rescue" , "bear" , "Transfer and hand over" , "what the errand boy does" .)