Obs. [f. THIGH sb.]
1. trans. To carve (a small bird): see quots.
c. 1470. in Hors, Shepe, & G., etc. (Caxton, 1479 Roxb. repr.), 33. Alle smale birdes thyed.
1508. Bk. Keruing, A j, in Babees Bk., 265. Thye that pegyon … thye that wodcocke, thye all maner of small byrdes.
1675. Han. Woolley, Gentlewom. Comp., 113. In cutting up all manner of small Birds, it is proper to say, Thigh them.
1796. Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, xxvi. 382. So you thigh curlews, plover, or snipe.
2. intr. To cower down, squat. rare–0.
1611. Florio, Accosciare, to thigh, to coure down [1598 to ioyne thighes].
