meathooks
Slaughterhouse suspension tools
Meathooks are the large curved hooks used in butcher shops and slaughterhouses to hang carcasses.
In slang, meathooks means hands, especially large or clumsy ones: Get your meathooks off my sandwich.
The image suggests crude grasping rather than delicate handling.
Animal killing facility
- carcassSlaughtered animal's body
- hangingExecution by noose
- abattoirMeat processing facility
- gambrelTwo-pitched roof style
processing · cold storage · rendering · cleaver · butcher · packing plant · dressed · quartering
Informal term for hands
grippers · dukes · graspers · fingers · palms · knuckles · grip · clutch
Having well-developed sinews
- brawnyPhysically powerful, well-muscled
- powerfulHaving great strength
- burlyHeavily muscled and broad
- strappingMuscular and hale
sinewy · grip strength · iron grip · viselike · crushing · forearms · calloused · laborer
slaughterhouse
Animal killing facility
gambrel · processing · cold storage · rendering · cleaver · butcher · packing plant · dressed · quartering · suspension
mitts
Informal term for hands
claws · grippers · dukes · graspers · fingers · palms · knuckles · grip · clutch · grasp
muscular
Having well-developed sinews
strapping · sinewy · grip strength · iron grip · viselike · crushing · forearms · calloused · laborer · stevedore
fists
Tightly closed hands
punch · brawler · slugger · heavyweight · knockout · sparring · jab · cross · combination · swing
threatening
Expressing intent to harm
thuggish · fearsome · rough · manhandling · strongarm · enforcer · goon · muscle · brute · heavy-handed
meathooksfishhooks
Barbed angling implements
fishing hooks · gaffes · crochet hooks · coat hooks · plant hangers