Definition of Dress out

1. Verb. Kill and prepare for market or consumption. "Dress a turkey"

Exact synonyms: Dress
Entails: Kill
Related verbs: Dress, Dress, Garnish, Trim
Generic synonyms: Cook, Fix, Make, Prepare, Ready
Derivative terms: Dressing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dress Out

dreshels
dress'd
dress-down Friday
dress-up party
dress blues
dress circle
dress coat
dress coats
dress code
dress codes
dress down
dress form
dress hanger
dress hat
dress out (current term)
dress rack
dress rehearsal
dress rehearsals
dress shield
dress shields
dress ship
dress shirt
dress shop
dress suit
dress uniform
dress up
dress whites
dressable

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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