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

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

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..

Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.

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

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

Butcher :: Butcher (n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle..

Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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