carcase

English

Noun

carcase (plural carcases)

1. Alternative form of carcass
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 5:2, signature K, verso, column 2:

     Oꝛ if a ſoule touch any vncleane thing, whether it be a carcaſe of an vncleane beaſt, oꝛ a carcaſe of vncleane cattell, oꝛ the carcaſe of vncleane creeping things, and if it be hidden from him, he alſo ſhall be vncleane, and guilty: […]

   • 1808, Charles Thomson, transl., The Holy Bible, […], Philadelphia: […] Jane Aitken, […], Genesis 15, 10:

     So he took for him all these and divided them in halves and placed the halves opposite to one another, but the birds he did not divide; but the birds alighted on the carcases, on the two halves of them, and Abram sat down with them.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Shark Massacre”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 336:

     But sometimes, especially upon the Line in the Pacific, this plan will not answer at all; because such incalculable hosts of sharks gather round the moored carcase, that were he left so for six hours, say, on a stretch, little more than the skeleton would be visible by morning.

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, “The Sheep-washing—The Offer”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 211:

     Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

   • 1944, A[rchibald] E[dward] Martin, chapter 13, in The Misplaced Corpse (Wakefield Crime Classics; 1), Adelaide, South Australia: Wakefield Press, published 1992 June, →ISBN, page 175:

     I’m wonderin’ what Sidoli will do when she gets close to him. I bet he knows a trick or two. He’ll probably grab her an’ hold her in front of his measley carcase.

   • 1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136:

     Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.

   • 2005, N. M. Fogerty, V. Ingham, L. McLeod, G. Gaunt, L. Cummins, Variation among maternal sires for lamb and wool gross margin performance of their crossbred daughters, Association for the Advancement of Breeding Genetics, Proceedings of the 16th Conference: Application of New Genetic Technologies to Animal Breeding, page 61,

     In each year lambs were weaned at 3 months and slaughtered as a group at a target average carcase weight of 22kg.

   • 2008, Matthew Teague, Helen Albert, Shelves, Cabinets & Bookcases, page 65:

     Also, scribe lines across the side panels to locate the dado for the bottom piece of the carcase.