All 8 Uses of
carrion
in
The Two Towers
- We cannot leave him lying like carrion among these foul Orcs.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- 'That is so,' said Wormtongue; 'but there is a third kind: pickers of bones, meddlers in other men's sorrows, carrion-fowl that grow fat on war.†
Chpt 3.6
- And the people were troubled in their minds; for the heaps of carrion were too great for burial or for burning.†
Chpt 3.8
- 'The carrion-fowl have been busy about the battle-field,' said Eomer.†
Chpt 3.8
- Must we pass this way, where the carrion-beasts devour so many good Riders of the Mark?†
Chpt 3.8
- They are like great carrion birds.†
Chpt 4.3
- 'He's nothing but carrion now.†
Chpt 4.10
- Carrion!†
Chpt 4.10
Definition:
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(carrion) the dead and rotting body of an animal; or (more rarely) animals that eat such flesh