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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Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The business of a butcher.
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..
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..
Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Hough :: Hough (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot..
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
Cart :: Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc..
Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
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