Meanings
- not comparableIn the process of being born.
While yanking a borning calf from its mother's womb Moore suffered a bizarre and fatal accident: the cord arted abruptly, sending my owner in a sprawl backward until his head fetched up against a post and cracked open like a melon.
1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 332
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