I through trichinella may be related to trichinosis, which is a disease I’d heard of, and I was right, that is a disease caused by the nematode of the family trichinella. Note this is only two pages after the previous post. This book is loaded with interesting words.
Gibbet – a gallows. Gibbeted – to expose to infamy or public scorn, or to execute by hanging on a gibbet.
Trichinella – a genus of nematode worms comprising the trichinae
And here is the end of a long sentence, yet again from The Orchard Keeper:
“…a meat market where hams and ribcages dangled like gibbeted miscreants and in the glass cases square porcelain trays piled with meat white-spotted and trichinella-ridden, chunks of liver the color of clay tottering up from moats of watery blood, a tray of brains, unidentifiable gobbets of flesh scattered here and there.”
Jonas David 