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dress

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1873, OED Evaluation: N/A

To weigh (a specified amount) on removal of the skin and offal.

ExampleMeaning
And I shot it here. And it went down and ah got up on its front feet and I had to put it out of misery of-course with two other shots in its neck. So I thought now you better dress it. Got my knife and I seen another one coming across the field, my own field, over a piece.
The process of removing the internal organs of hunted game.
And it turned out I'd two deer lying so we got them dressed up and the other guy, he come with a truck and load them and took them another place and hung them up.
The process of removing the internal organs of hunted game.
ExampleMeaning
What's- what's he trying to prove here. So r-- rather than say no to my neighbour, I got ready and walked across the fields with him and we dressed this steer.
The process of removing the internal organs of hunted game.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker 2: Yeah and that was- the- A-- Almonte had one, Lanark, Meadowvale, they all had turkey fairs. Speaker 1: They didn't dress them you-know, they left the stuffings in them. Wrapped their head and-everything up in paper.
The process of removing the internal organs of hunted game.
ExampleMeaning
Or you would can your- in the wintertime we dress a beef then that would be- it would be maybe canned.
To prepare for use as food, by making ready to cook, or by cooking .
ExampleMeaning
Well, that was just a place where you sold your, ah, your birds in the fall. Like, they'd kill them. They were all dressed and, ah, then they'd take a sleigh load of them or carload or whatever the motor transportation you had and then there'd be buyers from Canada-Packers, Maple-Leaf or-whatever would come and then-
The process of removing the internal organs of hunted game.