Both Uses
jugular
in
The Call of the Wild
(Edited)
- Pike, the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with a quick flash of teeth and a jerk, Buck got a frothing adversary by the throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the jugular.
p. 51.6 *jugular = vital blood vein in the neck
- He sprang at the foremost man (it was the chief of the Yeehats), ripping the throat wide open till the rent jugular spouted a fountain of blood.
p. 176.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(jugular) veins in the neck that return blood from the head
or:
amy vital part that is vulnerable to attack - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)