[error for kerued, CARVED, castrated.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 126. Beasts, kerned Fowls, and barren Fish … as an Ox amongst Beasts, a Capon amongst Birds, and a Pike wounded in the Belly.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Isagoge, The males are more strong … but the kerned are of a better nature.]
