Meaning of gallicide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The killing of a chicken, especially the former sport of cock-throwing; or, humorously, the killing of a Frenchman.
   uncountable
2. The chemical phenylmercury monoethanolammonium acetate, used for the control of slime-forming bacteria in pulp and paper mills.
   uncountable

Examples

“"A Cock has the Misfortune to be called in Latin by the same Word which signifies a Frenchman: So that nothing could so well represent⟳, or be represented by the One as the Other.... Gallicide, or Cock-Throwing, was first introduced by way of contempt to the French, and to exasperate the Minds of the People against that Nation..."”

“"Gallicide, or cock-throwing, the brutal custom of battering or pelting with sticks or stones a cock tied to a stake, is supposed to have⟳ originated in the time of King Edward the Third, when England and France appear⟳ to have⟳ indulged in provocations of more than ordinary resentment. The latin word gallus, by a vile pun, was equally expressive of a Frenchman and a cock; and poor chanticleer was doomed, as in effigy, to suffer⟳ the barbarities metaphorically intended for our continental neighbors."”

“"To paraphrase the ecologist Garett Hardin: If an embryo or fetus is a human being, then an acorn is an oak tree, and an egg a chicken. Scrambling an egg is then gallicide, and crushing acorns, deforestation."”

“"-cide: the killing or destruction of; or a killer of; or related to the killing of... [gallicide] fowl, especially chicken or turkeys; also gallinicide"”

“"Smith had no idea that gallicide would soon become⟳ a regular staple of the global poultry trade⟳."”

“On the other hand, Gallicide, being a liquid, may be added at any point⟳ […]”

“For the control⟳ of slime-forming bacteria, slug additions of organo-mercurials (Gallicide, Puratized SC or PMA) and Preventol GDC (a dichlorodiphenyl compound) will prove⟳ effective.”

“[…] phenylmercurymonoethal-ammonium acetate (sold under the trade⟳ name⟳ of Gallicide).”

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