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Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..

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

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

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..

Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The business of a butcher.

Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..

Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.

Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.

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..

Keech :: Keech (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

Butchery :: Butchery (n.) The business of a butcher.

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

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..

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

Rump :: Rump (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef..

Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..

Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..

Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.

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

Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.

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