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Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.

Hough :: Hough (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot..

Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..

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..

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..

Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.

Reedling :: Reedling (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird..

Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.

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..

Cart :: Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc..

Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.

Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

Butcher''s Broom :: Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll..

Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.

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..

Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..

Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.

Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..

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