gralloch

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Definition of gralloch in English English dictionary

To eviscerate a deer

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.

The entrails or offal of a dead deer

Offal of a deer

To remove the offal from (a deer)

Etymology

() From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”).