Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To carve.

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Examples

  • Curlew, 49/706; 157/8; how to carve, 27/421; to untache or cut up, p.  162.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • To lose or untache a bitorn: [24] kitte his nekke, and lay hit by the hedde in the golette; kitte his whynge by the joynte; rere hym legge and whynge, as the heron; serve him fourth; no sawse unto hym but only salte.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Slice brawn, spoil a hen, unbrace a mallard, untache a curlew, border a pasty, thigh small birds, splat a pike, fin a chub, barb a lobster

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • [d] untache a curlew, [e] border a pasty, [f] thigh small birds,

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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