Carcasses

Word CARCASSES
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Definitions and meanings of "Carcasses"

What do we mean by carcasses?

The body of a dead animal.

(meat trade) The body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc.

The body of a dead human, a corpse.

The framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.

An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.

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The word "carcasses" in example sentences

Sometimes seen feeding alongside vultures at carcasses is the longer-necked and larger-headed crested caracara (Polyborus plancus), a hawk with distinctive markings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some will fight, some will rule, some will pray; and all the rest will toil and suffer sore while on their bleeding carcasses is reared again, and yet again, without end, the amazing beauty and surpassing wonder of the civilized state. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Among the pranks that earned the young Mr. Elder renown: putting clothes on cattle carcasses from a meat-processing factory, placing them at railroad crossings and screaming to horrified passersby that his friend “Moshe” had been killed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As appealing as it is in potentially promising a bona fide sea serpent carcass, it is unfortunately no better than the many tales of lost sea serpent carcasses from the 18th and 19th centuries. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

What was a place filled with trash and animal carcasses is now place where kids are able to play soccer. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Of course in the U.S. you have the humane society picking up stray hungry animals and removing carcasses from the roads. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The use of tools also gave our ancestors access to rich sources of meat, namely the carcasses of large, dead animals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How'd your sisters take to being called carcasses? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nay, with the exception of the houses which I myself destroyed, it would be quite possible to uncover the 'carcasses' of all the houses, as in the case of Pompeii. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Besides bombs, various other projectiles are fired from mortars, such as carcasses, which are shells having three holes of similar dimensions to the fuze-hole, pierced at equal distances apart in the upper hemisphere, with their exterior openings touching the great circle which is perpendicular to the axis of the bore. ❋ United States. Navy Dept. Bureau Of Ordnance (N/A)

When referring to the tactical ferry program they believe it is a, "Depot Maintenance input that only requires three (3) crewmembers … we're only ferrying 'carcasses' from point A to point B!" ❋ Jane (2010)

However, if a potential food source such as carcasses have been discarded close to shore, some sharks would naturally pick up on this and opportunistically feed there. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"carcasses" offered to idols, an offensive odor to God: human victims ❋ Unknown (1871)

Supposedly back in the day there was very active trade in hunter-harvested meat, and this gun was used to harvest passenger pigeons by firing it into flocks of birds, then collecting and selling the carcasses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One had been used by a livestock farmer to dump animal carcasses. ❋ Maureen Corrigan (2011)

Q: Your account of the Nile River race is unforgettable: grossly polluted water, animal carcasses floating around you, and an extreme case of dysentery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some of their carcasses washed ashore and broke our hearts, but the vast majority sank uncounted and unmourned. ❋ Ian R. MacDonald (2011)

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