Definition of "pithing" []

• Present participle of pith. (verb)

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• "(23 October 1999, p 6) in which John Bonner describes the discovery of brain tissue in the vascular system of 1 in 16 bolt-stunned cattle that were then subjected to "pithing": having their brains scrambled by a metal pole in order to prevent the animal reflexively kicking out."
• "Students operate on rats and then kill them .. and destroy frogs 'brains by sticking a pin through the animals' skulls (a process called "pithing")."
• "The whole is wrapped in a close-curried, stub-nosed Alfa stile that puts a pithing cane in the notion that hatchbacks are boring."