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

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

Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.

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

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

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.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.

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

Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.

Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.

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

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.

Butcher :: Butcher (n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle..

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

Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall..

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

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

Rump :: Rump (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef..

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..

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