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Definition of Dress out
1. Verb. Kill and prepare for market or consumption. "Dress a turkey"
Entails: Kill
Related verbs: Dress, Dress, Garnish, Trim
Generic synonyms: Cook, Fix, Make, Prepare, Ready
Derivative terms: Dressing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dress Out
Literary usage of Dress out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... dress out a pamphlet, which he supposed would be done, author liko. by casting
the materials into some ..."
2. A Latin-English Dictionary Printed from the Unfinished Ms. of the Late by Thomas Hewitt Key (1888)
"... dress, dress out, deck, adorn, ... seditiones ipsas ornare, 2, 124; 13.
dress out with weals, give a dressing to, ..."
3. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1906)
"Large Yorkshires dress out just fair in slaughtering. In the report of the block
test at the Ontario Provincial Winter Fair in 1901 the average percentage ..."
4. Report by American Genetic Association (1907)
"Now the steer that took third place at Chicago didn't dress out as much table
meat as the dairy steer. A flank was sent up to the culinary department and ..."
5. The Ordnance Manual for the Use of Officers of the United States Army by United States Army. Ordnance Dept (1850)
"In filling a new bayonet, dress out the groove of the socket and ream out the
... In fitting a hammer, dress out the tumbler hole to make it fit the tumbler ..."
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