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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Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
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..
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Butcher''s Broom :: Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll..
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Rump :: Rump (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef..
Cart :: Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc..
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
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..
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
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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