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Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.

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

Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..

Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..

Hough :: Hough (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot..

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

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..

Butchery :: Butchery (n.) The business of a butcher.

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

Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.

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

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..

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

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

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

Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.

Reedling :: Reedling (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird..

Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..

Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.

Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.

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