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

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

Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..

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

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

Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..

Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.

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.

Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.

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

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

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

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

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

Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.

Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..

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

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

Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.

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