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What is a carcass?

What is a carcass? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The body of a dead animal.
  2. (meat trade) The body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc.
  3. The body of a dead human, a corpse.
  4. The framework of a structure, especially one not normally seen.
  5. (nautical) An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.
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The aitchbone may be cut in a fully automatic operation performed when the carcass is suspended on overhead rails.
Moreover, larger hunting parties are less likely to lose kills to kleptoparasites because they reduce carcass access time.
The carcass of the 27 ft mammal was washed-up and became stuck on rocks at Oxwich Bay in the Gower peninsula.
He then drew an axe from the sack on his back and walked down to the trees to make a wooden stretcher on which to tie the deer's carcass.
He went back into hiding, the shrunken, self-parodying actor within the huge carcass of a body.
Concerns have also been raised on poor conformation scores for animals killing out with carcass weights under 300 kg.

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