Thesaurus: butchery

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1. n. The business of a butcher.
2. n. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.
3. n. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
4. n. a building where animals are butchered
5. n. the business of a butcher
6. n. the savage and excessive killing of many people
7. 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.
8. n:100 n. the business of a butcher