Definition of butcher

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Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..

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Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.
Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) The business of a butcher.
Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
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..
Reedling :: Reedling (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird..
Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The business of a 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..
Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..
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..
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
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