Definition of butcher

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Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..

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Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..
Butcher''s Broom :: Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll..
Hough :: Hough (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot..
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..
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Reedling :: Reedling (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird..
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..
Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..
Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.
Keech :: Keech (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..
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