Definition of butcher

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of butcher is as below...

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

Lern More About Butcher

Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
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..
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..
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.
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..
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..
Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
Butcher''s Broom :: Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll..
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us