Meaning of BUTCHERY
| Pronunciation: | | 'bûchuree
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- [n] the savage and excessive killing of many people
- [n] the business of a butcher
- [n] a building where animals are butchered
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| | Synonyms: | | abattoir, butchering, carnage, mass murder, massacre, shambles, slaughter, slaughterhouse |
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| | See Also: | | Alamo, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, building, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, Custer's Last Stand, edifice, execution, homicide, Little Bighorn, murder, slaying | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Butch"er*y\, n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F.
boucherie. See {Butcher}, n.]
1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.]
2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual
barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. --Shak.
The perpetration of human butchery. --Prescott.
3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is
shed. [Obs.]
Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. --Fabyan.
Syn: Murder; slaughter; carnage. See {Massacre}.
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