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

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

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

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..

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..

Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.

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..

Cart :: Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc..

Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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