PITHING
- PITH, to sever the spinal cord of [v]
- PITH, to sever the central nervous system of [v]
- to kill (as cattle) by piercing or severing the spinal cord
- destroy the spinal cord or central nervous system of (as a frog) usually by passing a wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal
- remove the pith from (a plant stem)