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.
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..
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.
Reedling :: Reedling (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird..
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..
Rump :: Rump (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef..
Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The business of a butcher.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..
Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) The business of a butcher.
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..
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..
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