Killcalf
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Killcalf is a noun meaning (obsolete) A butcher.
Meaning
(obsolete) A butcher.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, figuratively) A violent person.
Example Sentences
With any summe you are afraid to lose / But in the night, but then take heed of those / Base Padding Rascalls, for their kill-calfe law / I am not priuy to, I neuer saw / Them, nor their actions, then I cannot show / How to preuent the thing I doe not know.
Sir Francis Drake's ship at Deptford, my Lord Mayor's barge, and divers secret and unsuspected places, and there they make private shambles with kill-calf cruelty, and sheep slaughtering murder, to the abuse of Lent, the deceiving of the informers, and the great grief of every zealous fishmonger.
Synonyms for killcalf
Depending on context, synonyms include killbuck, killcow.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include kill-calf, kill-cow, killcow, killbuck, calf, calfflesh.
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