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Dutch
Etymology
Compound of vlees (“meat, flesh”) + boom (“beam, tree”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvleːs.boːm/
- Hyphenation: vlees‧boom
Noun
vleesboom m (plural vleesbomen, diminutive vleesboompje n)
- (now dated, rare) beam for hanging an animal carcass to be butchered
- 1608, Manuscript of the regulations of Antwerp (no. 18432), part 2, par. 11, in G. de Longé, Coutumes de la villa d'Anvers, in Coutumes du pays et duché de Brabant, vol. 3, 1872, page 174.
- 1939 March 28, "Te koop", De Tijd, evening edition, page 8
1948 April 17, “Verkoping kapitale boereninspan”, in De Stem, volume 4, number 1052, page 6:[…] rugsproeier, bascule met gewichten, 200 zakken, vóórladders, boomgaard- en andere ladders[,] trap, vleesboom, hooi en stroo, balken, planken, golfplaten, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- uterine thyroid, uterine myoma; (now uncommon) any myoma