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goat

noun as in hollow-horned mammal

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Mr Saifi, alleged the case was meant to "pressurise" the family, noting that a local veterinary report identified the meat as goat, not cow.

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“It is the same all the way through. Charming descriptions of mountain goats and ibexes! Blooming edelweiss and cute babies! This is not poetry. Where is the suffering? The torment? The thwarted dreams?”

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If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns.

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Also salvaged was an astragalus, which was a knucklebone of a sheep or a goat used like a die in a game called “knucklebone.”

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“We found that you could rent goats to come and eat it, and so eighteen-wheelers would turn up and spill out a flock and that would solve the problem for a while,” she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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