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

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

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

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..

Keech :: Keech (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.

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 (v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner..

Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..

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.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..

Butcherliness :: Butcherliness (n.) Butchery quality.

Flesher :: Flesher (n.) A butcher.

Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

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..

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

Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..

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

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

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

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