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Definition
the dead and rotting body of an animal; or (more rarely) animals that eat such flesh
- Not though the walls be taken by a reckless foe that will build a hill of carrion before them.5.1 — Book 5 Chapter 1 — Minas Tirith (77% in)
- But now wheeling swiftly across it, like shadows of untimely night, he saw in the middle airs below him five birdlike forms, horrible as carrion-fowl yet greater than eagles, cruel as death.5.4 — Book 5 Chapter 4 — The Siege of Gondor (13% in)
- Curses they heeded not, nor understood the tongues of western men; crying with harsh voices like beasts and carrion-birds.5.4 — Book 5 Chapter 4 — The Siege of Gondor (73% in)
- Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion!5.6 — Book 5 Chapter 6 — The Battle of the Pelennor Fields (19% in)
There are no more uses of "carrion" in The Return of the King.
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