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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Cart :: Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc..
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The business of a butcher.
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..
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..
Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
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..
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..
Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Butcher''s Broom :: Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll..
Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..
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