gralloch

English

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic grealach (“entrails”), from Proto-Celtic *gre-lach, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“bowels”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹælək/

Noun

gralloch (uncountable)

(Britain, rare) The entrails or offal of a dead deer.

Verb

gralloch (third-person singular simple present grallochs, present participle gralloching, simple past and past participle gralloched)

(Britain, rare) To eviscerate a deer.
- 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve:
  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.
- 2012, Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‎, page 64:
  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.