Definition of slaughter

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Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.

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Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Bloody :: Bloody (a.) Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle..
Appealable :: Appealable (a.) That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter..
Deathful :: Deathful (a.) Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Self-slaughter :: Self-slaughter (n.) Suicide.
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
Havoc :: Havoc (n.) A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
Manslayer :: Manslayer (n.) One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
Slaughtered :: Slaughtered (imp. & p. p.) of Slaughte.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Internecine :: Internecine (a.) Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive..
Carnage :: Carnage (n.) Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc..
Slaughterman :: Slaughterman (n.) One employed in slaughtering.
M :: M (n.) A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters..
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place for slaughtering animals for meat.
Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The wanton slaughter of game.
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..
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