humane killer

'He found he didn't have the humane killer with him after all.

I have a humane killer in the car."

Most slaughterhouses use humane killers, which project a steel rod through the skull of the animal.

'Where's the humane killer then?'

For some years a man used to come in and do the deed, but Uncle got on with it himself later round by the stable, using a humane killer.

I al ways had to wait for the threat of the knacker man's humane killer before" I said what I had to say now.

In addition certain types of firearms - such as humane killers, tranquiliser guns, flare pistols, antiques - may be used and possessed without a licence.

Recently though, the company was asked to manufacture another model and hence, the Humane Killer Mk II was introduced.

Slavering foxes will be stopped from trotting down 30 miles of tunnel by ten-foot fences, electric 'stun mats' and being shot with humane killers.

In 1934 Connolly was working on a trilogy: Humane Killer, The English Malady and The Rock Pool.

In 1895, W.W. Greener invented the world's first Humane Killer, a gun designed to kill cattle, sheep, pigs and horses, quickly and easily.

I got out the humane killer and drove back to the farm, wondering at the fact that the old man should find the idea of my bullet less repugnant than the: knacker man's.

Well I was always with him, I was brought up with it, you see and then we got the humane killer come along then, yeah and it was quite easy then.

He was a very humane killer too, for he could dispatch a beast with one blow of his tail so that it didn't know (and presumably still doesn't know) it had been killed.

The .32 ACP is one of the most common calibers used in veterinary "humane killers", such as the Greener Humane Killer.

And then, after the laughter and the shouts of disbelief: "We was killing and freezing these hogs in Acidalia, and those humane killers are like shooting a giant arrow into their heads so we figured why not kill and freeze them both at once and see what happens.

There is already, I believe, a ray which will form a barrier over an open window and kill any insect that flies into it, and although Evans asserted that his would be powerful enough to kill cattle at a limited range I could think of no practical use for it; except perhaps as a humane killer.