Definition of butcher

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

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Cart :: Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc..
Cleaver :: Cleaver (n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces..
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..
Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.
Reedling :: Reedling (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird..
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..
Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.
Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
Nine-killer :: Nine-killer (n.) The northern butcher bird.
Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.
Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The business of a butcher.
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..
Keech :: Keech (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
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..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..
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