gralloch

1. ScotlandrareuncountableThe entrails or offal of a dead deer, especially when removed. Also the entrails of other wild animals, when removed.

present singular third person grallochs · participle present gralloching · participle past gralloched · past gralloched

1. Scotlandrare(transitive) To gut or eviscerate a deer, or other game animal.

   A hand's as easy to cut as a finger for a man who has gralloched deer with a keen sgian-dubh.

   1896, Neil Munro, “The Red Hand”, in The Lost Pibroch, W. Blackwood and Sons

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   On our mattress in the secret nights, the girls whispered to me how he’d been watching her in a revival of Emma Bovary in an art-house in Berkeley and Tristessa’s eyes, eyes of a stag about to be gralloched, had fixed directly upon his and held them.

   1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

   Then the beasts were prised apart at the breast, and they went to work on the gralloching again, riving open the front as far as the hind-fork, fetching out the offal, then with further purpose filleting the ribs in the recognised fashion.

   2012, Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, page 64

2. The education committee report was always going to be the big one. Now it's out and ministers didn't entirely escape criticism. The HMI was, at last, deemed partly culpable. The SQA was predictably gralloched.

   — The Herald (Scotland), December 9t 2000.

present singular third person grallochs · participle present grallochin · participle past gralloched · past gralloched · participle past grallocht · past grallocht