cân móc hàm
Definition
- Noun:
- Hanging weight / Dressed weight: The net weight of a slaughtered animal, specifically after it has been butchered, bled, and cleaned (dressed), typically measured by hanging it on a hook.
- Hook weight: Refers to the practice of weighing a carcass by hanging it from a hook, hence the literal translation "hook-scale weight."
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Con lợn được năm mươi cân móc hàm. (The pig has a dressed weight of fifty kilograms.)
- Cân móc hàm của con bò này rất nặng. (The hanging weight of this cow is very heavy.)
Advanced Usage
- This term is primarily used in the context of butchery, livestock trading, and meat production to specify the commercially relevant weight of an animal after slaughter and initial processing, excluding blood, hide, head, feet, and offal in some definitions.
Variants and Related Words
- Cân tươi (n): Fresh weight; sometimes used interchangeably in context.
- Cân thịt xẻ (n): Dressed carcass weight.
Synonyms
- Dressed weight: The weight of an animal after butchering and removal of inedible parts.
- Carcass weight: The weight of the slaughtered animal's body.
- Hanging weight: Weight of a carcass hung on a hook for measurement or aging.
Related Terms
- Cân sống (n): Live weight; the weight of the animal before slaughter.
- Cân khô (n): Dry weight; not typically used for meat but highlights the contrast with "net" weight.
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To weigh an animal slaughtered; weight of an animal slaughtered
