(from the article `meat processing`) ...weighing 315 kilograms (63 percent yield of live weight). Beef carcasses are split into two sides on the slaughter floor. After chilling, each ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/51
the posterior end of a halved carcass of beef, lamb, etc., sectioned usually between the twelfth and thirteenth ribs. · the rear part of an animal. Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/hindquarter