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carcass

kor kuhs

  • n  the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food

  • Roughly speaking, the game involves two or more teams on horseback fighting for control of the headless, gutted carcass of sheep, calf or goat.
  • Then the Navy medics want the carcass for an autopsy, just in case they have missed something.
  • Even top predators like big jungle cats may spend as much time defending a kill as eating it, one of the reasons some of them will carry a carcass up into a tree before tucking in.
News & Articles

  • Ohio livestock prices
    On a carcass basis plant delivered (54-62 pct. lean): 1.27 lower. 90.00-105.00, weighted average 99.43.
    June 18, 2013 - Your Hometown Lima Stations
  • Scientists: Timber in Lake Michigan centuries old
    FAIRPORT, Mich. (AP) — A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced Tuesday, a crucial finding as crews dig toward what they hope is the carcass of a French ship that disappeared while exploring the Great Lakes in the 17th century.
    June 18, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
  • Scientists say shipwreck timber in Lake Michigan centuries old
    Underwater archaeologists make crucial finding as they dig toward what they hope is the carcass of a long-lost French ship
    June 18, 2013 - CBS News
Quotes

  • Bob Schaffer in Grand Junction Sentinel
    Over my cold, dead, political carcass,Republican US Senate candidate Bob Schaffer said.
  • Tendai Biti in guardian.co.uk
    Biti said that if Mugabe formed a Cabinet on his own, it would be "the final nail into the carcass of this dialogue."
  • Mike Huckabee in New York Times
    I've always said as a hunter, 'You never put the cross hairs on a dead carcass,'Mr. Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, told reporters Wednesday. "You only aim for something that's alive that you'd like to take home."

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