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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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..
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..
Keech :: Keech (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
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..
Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Butcher''s Broom :: Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll..
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..
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The business of a butcher.
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Cart :: Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc..
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