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gralloching

gralloching is the present participle and gerund of gralloch.

Meaning of gralloch

Verb

gralloch (third-person singular simple present grallochs, present participle gralloching, simple past and past participle gralloched)

  1. (Scotland, rare) (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
  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.

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Questions about gralloching

What is gralloching the present participle and gerund of?
Gralloching is the present participle and gerund of gralloch.

Words near gralloching in the dictionary

  1. gralline
  2. grallinid
  3. grallinids
  4. gralloch
  5. gralloched
  6. gralloching
  7. grallochs
  8. grallock
  9. grallocked
  10. grallocking
  11. grallocks

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