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caul Anatomy 1. a portion of the amniotic sac sometimes covering a child's head at birth 2. a large fold of peritoneum hanging from the stomach across the intestines; the large omentum caul [kȯl] (engineering) A sheet of metal or other material that is heated and used to equalize pressure during fabricating plywood, shaping surface veneer, and hot-pressing composite materials. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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those made and sold in penny-widths up to six pennies wide, such as tapes, ribbons, garters, fringes, tassels, galloons, girdles, inkles, cauls, trimmings, gimps, hatbands, braids and livery and other laces" (24). In Blood Meridian (1985), a tale of Western scalp hunters, death is all butchery and business, murder for profit in a landscape of terra damnata: "They moved among the dead harvesting the long black locks with their knives and leaving their victims rawskulled and strange in their bloody cauls. |
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