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deerflesh

noun

Etymology

From deer + flesh.

  1. derived from *pleh₁ḱ-✻ — “to tear, peel off”
  2. inherited from *flaiski✻
  3. inherited from *flaiski✻
  4. inherited from flǣsċ
  5. inherited from flesh
  6. compounded as deerflesh — “deer + flesh”

Definitions

  1. The meat or flesh of a deer

    The meat or flesh of a deer; venison.

    • The dogs, insufficiently fed on walrus, had begun to give out one after the other, and the frozen deerflesh, of which the party had not even full rations, ill supplied the place of pemmican.
    • The good cider and deerflesh they had eaten at the Inn at Altdorf that morning spilled from them into the water.
    • A woman scuttled towards MacDonald, raising a knife in a hand where fragments of deerflesh clung.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deerflesh. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA