See carcase on Wiktionary
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1874, Thomas Hardy, “The Sheep-washing—The Offer”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 211:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "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,\nIn each year lambs were weaned at 3 months and slaughtered as a group at a target average carcase weight of 22kg."
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