Originally, it denoted swine-herders in the service of a monastery who were also tasked with castrating of piglets.

While he pondered I poured him a cup of wine from Menua's personal store, thankful that the chief druid was away, supervising the castrating of the bull calves.

With queasy fascination, the boy watches the slaughtering and castrating of sheep, catching in the animals' eyes, he imagines, a glimpse of "a resignation, a foreknowledge . . . of what awaits them."

Nobody escapes Todd's jilted fury - not the American woman, "a castrating, threatening figure," and not American Jews, who have "fallen into the disturbing, not to say neurotic, cult of the Holocaust."

In some ways one of the castrating, domineering women of the book, in other ways not--for far from repressing her sexuality, she exaggerates it, and after McMurphy meets her, he suggests that Harding treats her as badly as she does him.

Wakker Dier has had several successful campaigns, most notably the one against battery cages (since 2003 super markets stopped selling eggs from chickens raised there) and the one against the castrating of conscious pigs (Hema and Unox have said they will stop selling meat from unanaesthetised pigs by 2009).

You're the one who castrated him in the first place.

Of these 703 men and 100 women had castrated themselves.

He must have been castrated around the time of death.

Still another shows a man who was castrated and shot in the head.

Since 329 of the boys died, even more were needed to be castrated.

I'll make it my business to see if there's anything to you to castrate.

At this time or before he was castrated to help his career in the church.

Many families who were poor had their children castrated because it might give them a better future.

You would have taken one look at the husband and castrated him on the spot.

Half an inch to one side and he'd have been castrated.

Have you not considered, perhaps, castrating those found with the virus?

Better to be castrated than to give in to what this enemy wants, I said.

Had she castrated the phone in case of just such an expedition as this?

There is no evidence that any of the inmates were castrated.

It was something like a hierarchy of sort, but never castrating the woman.

"That's the broad who killed five men and castrated them."

The father's smile for the virgin daughter he'd had castrated.

He is said to have been blinded, castrated, or both.

You can still have fight club, but we're not going to castrate anyone, anymore.

He would sooner castrate himself than to join with a woman such as her.

The other nuns then forced the girl to castrate the man.

"If they told the woman, I'm going to castrate you, that might turn the warning light on."

They've overruled your reason and they are castrating our son.

She castrates this guard too, but has little energy to spare.