Killcalf

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A butcher. obsolete

    "With any summe you are afraid to lose / But in the night, but then take heed of those / Base Padding Rascalls, for their kill-calfe law / I am not priuy to, I neuer saw / Them, nor their actions, then I cannot show / How to preuent the thing I doe not know."

  2. 2
    A violent person. figuratively, obsolete

Synonyms

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killbuckkillcow

Example

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"With any summe you are afraid to lose / But in the night, but then take heed of those / Base Padding Rascalls, for their kill-calfe law / I am not priuy to, I neuer saw / Them, nor their actions, then I cannot show / How to preuent the thing I doe not know."

Etymology

From kill + calf.

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