v. Obs. rare. [?] The specific term for ‘to carve’ a pheasant.
1508. Termes of a Keruer, in Babees Bk., 265. Vntache that curlewe. Alaye that fesande. Wynge that partryche.
1838. P. Parley, Tales ab. Christm., xxxiii. 302. The good people of those days would not say cut up, but alay a pheasant.
