I was trying to find carnifer, as I just was reading Trollope and found it being used; only in the Compact Oxford could I approach a definition as the word itself isn't included. It does come from carniferous (meat-bearing) and obviously by extension was once used for the meat platter. A word that didn't seem to escape to the 20th century.
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I was trying to find carnifer, as I just was reading Trollope and found it being used; only in the Compact Oxford could I approach a definition as the word itself isn't included. It does come from carniferous (meat-bearing) and obviously by extension was once used for the meat platter. A word that didn't seem to escape to the 20th century.
May 15, 2012