Attach some other meaning to the term,

As thus:

One market morning, in my usual rambles,

Passing along Whitechapel's ancient shambles,

Where meat was hung in many a joint and quarter,

I had to halt awhile, like other folks,

To let a killing butcher coax

A score of lambs and fatted sheep to slaughter.

A sturdy man he looke'd to fell an ox,

Bull-fronted, ruddy, with a formal streak