Definition of "carcase"

Or if a soule touch any vncleane thing, whether it be a carcase of an vncleane beast, or a carcase of vncleane cattell, or the carcase of vncleane creeping things, and if it be hidden from him, he also shall be vncleane, and guilty:

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Leviticus 5:2

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.

1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIX, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […]

Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases.

1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136

In each year lambs were weaned at 3 months and slaughtered as a group at a target average carcase weight of 22kg.

2005, N. M. Fogerty, V. Ingham, L. McLeod, G. Gaunt, L. Cummins, Variation among maternal sires for lamb and wool gross margin performance of their crossbred daughters, Association for the Advancement of Breeding Genetics, Proceedings of the 16th Conference: Application of New Genetic Technologies to Animal Breeding, page 61

Also, scribe lines across the side panels to locate the dado for the bottom piece of the carcase.

2008, Matthew Teague, Helen Albert, Shelves, Cabinets & Bookcases, page 65