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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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..
Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..
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 (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Cart :: Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc..
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..
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..
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..
Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
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..
Keech :: Keech (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
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