my spouse is listening to an audio book and learned that in days of yore (not so long ago in the USofA), when women were responsible for carving up the bird, some colorful terms were bandied about; she would:
thrust a chicken*
spoil a hen
break a goose
pierce a plover

(I see a potential to devolve into a food thread here, so please proceed with caution.)

*uncle bill suggests this may have been truss a chicken. does anybody have the hardcopy of "America's Women" by Gail Collins?