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Butchery

Butchery Meaning & Definition
Butchery Definition And Meaning

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

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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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