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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Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Rump :: Rump (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef..
Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc..
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) The business of a butcher.
Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..
Massacre :: Massacre (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings..
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Keech :: Keech (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
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