About The Word Butchery
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Butchery
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What's The Definition Of Butchery?
[n] the savage and excessive killing of many people
[n] the business of a butcher [n] a building where animals are butchered Synonyms | Synonyms for Butchery: abattoir | butchering | carnage | mass murder | massacre | shambles | slaughter | slaughterhouse Related Terms | Find terms related to Butchery: See Also | Alamo | Battle of Little Bighorn | Battle of the Little Bighorn | battue | bloodbath | bloodletting | bloodshed | building | business | business enterprise | commercial enterprise | Custer's Last Stand | edifice | execution | homicide | Little Bighorn | murder | slaying Butchery In Webster's Dictionary \Butch"er*y\, n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F.
boucherie. See {Butcher}, n.]
1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.]
2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual
barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. --Shak.
The perpetration of human butchery. --Prescott.
3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is
shed. [Obs.]
Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. --Fabyan.
Syn: Murder; slaughter; carnage. See {Massacre}.
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