butchery

1. n. The business of a butcher. Source: opted

2. n. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Source: opted

3. n. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. Source: opted

4. n. a building where animals are butchered Source: wordnet

5. n. the business of a butcher Source: wordnet

6. n. the savage and excessive killing of many people Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

8. n:100 n. the business of a butcher Source: ecdict

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