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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Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..
Reedling :: Reedling (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird..
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The business of a butcher.
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) The business of a butcher.
Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.
Rump :: Rump (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
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