Definition of butcher

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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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Rump :: Rump (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef..
Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..
Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
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.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
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..
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
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..
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..
Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
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