grallochn.
/ˈɡralɒx/ The viscera of a dead deer.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Cervidae (deer) > [noun] > body or parts of > viscera
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gralloch1882
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Grallock.
1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) II. iii. 93 The gralloch showed nothing but clover and grass.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
grallochv.
/ˈɡralɒx/ transitive. To disembowel (properly, a deer).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > disembowel or clean
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gralloch1848
1848 Fraser's Mag. 38 313 Having flayed and garlocked the elk, he cut off one of its haunches.
1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. iv. 103 We think no toil or trouble too great to hear the ping of the bullet, and see the deer grallocked at last.
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 297 We had to gralloch our pig ourselves, for the natives would not touch them.
Derivatives
ˈgralloched adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [adjective] > disembowelled
gralloched1897
1897 Outing 29 440/1 We bore our gralloched game..on double shoulder poles.
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