Gralloch

Quick meaning: Gralloch is a noun meaning (Scotland, rare) The entrails or offal of a dead deer, especially when removed. Also the entrails of other wild animals, when removed.

Meaning

(Scotland, rare) The entrails or offal of a dead deer, especially when removed. Also the entrails of other wild animals, when removed.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• grallochs
• gralloching
• gralloched

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scrag, mort, quarry, crottles, raploch, grool.

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