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Complete Definition of "gralloch"

English
Etymology
Gaelic grealach ‘entrails’.

Pronunciation
IPA: /'gɹælək/

Noun
en-noun|-

  1. UK|rare The entrails or offal of a dead deer.

Verb
en-verb|gralloch|es

  1. UK|rare To eviscerate a deer.

#:*1977: 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. — Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

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