gralloch

And, most important, his knife, used for the gralloch.

I saw it fall, and ran hard and got up to it just when he was starting the gralloch.

The gralloch prayer, or something like it.

It was the gralloch prayer he had been taught as a boy, learning to hunt in the Highlands of Scotland.

He pulled the dirk from his belt and knelt by the deer, hastily saying the words of the gralloch prayer.

What about the gralloch?

That the miscreant should be calmly proceeding to the gralloch was like a fiery stimulant to Janet's spirit.

The gralloch prayer?

No, it was the gralloch praver-1 had seen the older man's eyes widen, and his glance at his sons as Jamie knelt over the carcass.

The stag seemed to have departed with Wattie into the ewigkeit and happily no eye at the Beallach had seen the signs of the gralloch.

The culminating ceremony of the gralloch, when the triumphant huntsman slits open the paunch of his game, and thrusts his hand into the opening to draw out the still-warm viscera.

There was the sudden effort of moving the limp, heavy carcass, and then the gralloch, the long stroke of mingled strength and delicacy that slit the hide between the legs, but did not penetrate the sac that held the entrails.

And, most important, his knife, used for the gralloch.

He has the power to gralloch our past

I saw it fall, and ran hard and got up to it just when he was starting the gralloch.

The gralloch prayer, or something like it.

It was the gralloch prayer he had been taught as a boy, learning to hunt in the Highlands of Scotland.

He pulled the dirk from his belt and knelt by the deer, hastily saying the words of the gralloch prayer.

What about the gralloch?

That the miscreant should be calmly proceeding to the gralloch was like a fiery stimulant to Janet's spirit.

To carry his prize downhill, he had to gralloch his deer (remove the offal) to reduce its weight.

The gralloch prayer?

No, it was the gralloch praver-1 had seen the older man's eyes widen, and his glance at his sons as Jamie knelt over the carcass.

The stag seemed to have departed with Wattie into the ewigkeit and happily no eye at the Beallach had seen the signs of the gralloch.

“We’ll gralloch this beast.”

But then Lord Pearson is an interesting chap: he can stalk, kill and gralloch a deer by himself and in 1977 God appeared to him during a varicose vein operation.

I had to go to the dictionary to learn that a "sept" is a clan, to "gralloch" a deer is to disembowel it and that Michaelmas is Sept. 29.

The culminating ceremony of the gralloch, when the triumphant huntsman slits open the paunch of his game, and thrusts his hand into the opening to draw out the still-warm viscera.

There was the sudden effort of moving the limp, heavy carcass, and then the gralloch, the long stroke of mingled strength and delicacy that slit the hide between the legs, but did not penetrate the sac that held the entrails.