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Definitions for: Butchery
[n] the savage and excessive killing of many people
[n] the business of a butcher
[n] a building where animals are butchered
Webster (1913) 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.
Synonyms: abattoir, butchering, carnage, mass murder, massacre, shambles, slaughter, slaughterhouse
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
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