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grallochs

grallochs is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 grallochs

What is grallochs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Grallochs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gralloch.

Words near grallochs in the dictionary

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

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