transitive. To slaughter (an animal, esp. a pig) by thrusting a knife into the large blood vessels in or at the base of the neck. Also in…

transitive. To seize by the throat with the teeth and tear or lacerate; to kill or injure by biting and shaking. Said e.g. of dogs or wolves…

In various specific uses of sense 31. To kill or wound (deer) with an arrow or spear, or with a gunshot. Said also of the weapon.

transitive. To pierce or cut (a deer) so as to kill. Obsolete.

transitive. To cut off (the head of an animal); to cut short, prune (a root); to shear (a sheep).

transitive. To smoke (a beehive, wasp's nest, etc.); to suffocate (bees) with smoke; to drive out (an animal) using smoke. Also with out: to…

transitive. To pierce, sever, or destroy the upper spinal cord or brainstem of (an animal), so as to cause death or insensibility.

The shout of huntsmen at the death of the game; hence allusively in to be whoo-whoop with, to be ‘all up with’. Hence whoo-whoop v. (in quot. trans…

transitive. To slaughter (an animal) in the manner prescribed by Islamic law. Chiefly (and in earliest use) in passive. Formerly also intransitive.

to bark (a squirrel, etc.): see quot.

To put (a sick or unwanted animal) to death deliberately and humanely.

To shoot (wildfowl) in flight.

transitive. To destroy in a lethal chamber.

transitive. To kill (animals) painlessly; = lethalize, v.