Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who slaughters calves for market; a butcher. In the quotation used as an adjective.
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Examples
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How well I remember the regionthe flat plains of the middle of Long Island, as then, with their prairie-like vistas and grassy patches in every direction, and the kill-calf and herds of cattle and sheep.
Notes (Such as They Are) Founded on Elias Hicks. November Boughs 1892
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How well I remember the region -- the flat plains of the middle of Long Island, as then, with their prairie-like vistas and grassy patches in every direction, and the ` kill-calf 'and herds of cattle and sheep.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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Island, as then, with their prairie-like vistas and grassy patches in every direction, and the 'kill-calf' and herds of cattle and sheep.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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