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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..

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..

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

Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.

Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..

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

Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..

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

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

Butcher''s Broom :: Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll..

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

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..

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

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

Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.

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

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

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

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

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