Definition of butcher

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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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Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
Hough :: Hough (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot..
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle..
Shrike :: Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher..
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..
Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..
Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.
Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..
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