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.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The business of a butcher.
Reedling :: Reedling (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird..
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..
Keech :: Keech (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..
Hough :: Hough (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot..
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..
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..
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..
Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..
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..
Rump :: Rump (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..
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