(n.) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A minimum of 4 sheeps' heads, obtained weekly over 24 months from the Pretoria Municipal Abattoir, was examined for infestation.
(2) On Friday, at the modest five-storey block of flats in the Quartier des Abattoirs where he had lived and which was raided by officers from the elite RAID unit at 9.30am,neighbours described him as a quiet and “not very religious” man.
(3) In order to assess the extent of environmental pollution by Pb, Cd and Zn in the industrial area of Portoscuso (Southwestern Sardinia-Italy), anatomohistopathological, histochemical and chemical tests were carried out on the heart, liver, kidneys and bones of sheep slaughtered in the local abattoir.
(4) Over a period of 15 months data were collected from abattoirs in Great Britain on 213,082 cattle and 362,838 sheep livers to determine the distribution and prevalence of damage by Fasciola hepatica.
(5) These figures are about the same as previously reported for pork but much higher than previously reported for beef carcasses; however, they represent only three to five abattoirs in Georgia and do not necessarily represent contamination levels throughout the country.
(6) A total of 134 (8.9%) of 1499 cattle, 146 (8.1%) of 1798 sheep and 144 (7.1%) of 2020 goats slaughtered in abattoirs in Masailand were found to harbour hydatid cysts.
(7) The numbers of the various kinds of mycobacteria isolated at each of the 4 abattoirs and for the 3 meat inspection disposition classes were not significantly different.
(8) Romania's agriculture minister Daniel Constantin angrily said an official investigation had exonerated his country's abattoirs.
(9) Because supply chains are so long and processors use subcontractors to supply meat when the volume of orders changes dramatically at short notice, it is all too easy for mislabelled, poorer quality, or downright fraudulent meat to be substituted for what is specified in big abattoirs and processing plants.
(10) She said a large numbers of asylum seekers on bridging visas were already working in regional areas, in places like abattoirs and factories.
(11) All the diagnoses made on these birds at the abattoir were recorded and the carcasses individually identified.
(12) When bovine embryonic kidneys collected at the Gorgie Abattoir, Edinburgh were examined for evidence of infection with bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV), 11 out of 26 kidneys were found to be positive.
(13) Last week a horse abattoir in Yorkshire, Peter Boddy, was raided along with a Welsh meat trading company.
(14) A study of 150 cases of AML (ICD 205.0) found a relative risk of 2.5 for abattoir workers (90% confidence interval 1.3-4.7).
(15) During a period of 13 months, 507 heads of sheep, obtained from an abattoir near Harare, were examined for infection with Oestrus ovis larvae.
(16) Inspection of bovine female genitalia at a major abattoir in north-eastern Zimbabwe showed schistosome-induced granulomas in uterine walls.
(17) The bacterial status of beef carcasses at a commercial abattoir was monitored before and after slaughterline automation.
(18) The export of live horses from Ulster for slaughter has largely ceased since the establishment seven years ago of the horse abattoir at Saintfield, County Down, by a well-known British knackery firm.
(19) In addition, abattoir and farm-level management data were obtained to evaluate variables that may be considered risk factors for infection.
(20) The criteria established in this study could be used to determine the ages of spontaneous bruises in abattoir carcases and so provide a basis for an investigation aimed at detection of the traumatic episode from which they result.
Butchery
Definition:
(n.) The business of a butcher.
(n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.
(n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of a leftwing temper go further in accounting for the butchery of the first world war – and indeed the rest of the 20th century – in terms of European powers' imperial ambitions.
(2) • The Ginger Pig 's pork butchery class is conducted at their Moxon Street shop in London.
(3) Nothing gets a publisher’s chequebook out faster than a memoir, to the point that nonfiction books that are ostensibly about a specific subject (butchery, say, or George Eliot) are now styled and sold as memoirs (respectively Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell; and The Road to Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead.)
(4) The anatomical location, gross appearance, and frequency of occurrence of the striations on the Krapina material do not resemble Mousterian butchery marks on reindeer.
(5) What about the rights of employees?” he asked at one point siding with the government, before going to express concern at the notion that companies would lose their right to appeal future restrictions over issues such as kosher butchery practices.
(6) I hadn't come across this term until I started looking into the art of deer-butchery, with which the Gawain poet was clearly well acquainted.
(7) The family dog is the first victim in Funny Games , several horses have their throats slit in The Time of the Wolf , and Benny's Video begins with the butchery of a squealing pig – Haneke's perfectionism required the sacrifice of three porkers.
(8) The prevalence of virus warts of the hands among butchers has been determined in three industrial butcheries by examining 536 meat-workers at their places of work.
(9) This was a post-imperial favour, but it reminded Indians of one of the key events – by unfortunate coincidence also in Amritsar – of their struggle for independence: the butchery in 1919 of up to 1,000 civilians at Jallianwala Bagh on the orders of a reactionary British general, Reginald Dyer .
(10) If we have banned the genital butchery of girls, why do we allow it for boys?
(11) Their faces stared up from the dusty stretch of tarmac outside New Cairo's police academy, a silent roll call of butchery laid out like a human carpet amid a cacophony of chants, sirens and camera clicks in the morning sun.
(12) "Sometimes at these sites, they were used for other ways as well, sometimes for cutting or butchery or as knives or in processing hides or other materials."
(13) One of the education secretary's favourite heads calls it "butchery" .
(14) One of Michael Gove's favourite headteachers has rounded on the education secretary, claiming he has failed to understand the "butchery" of marking down GCSE English students in an attempt to counter grade inflation.
(15) In Lithuania and Latvia, the butchery started before the Nazis even arrived.
(16) Here, the plausibility of the striations as cutmarks is tested by comparing them to Mousterian butchery marks on large fauna and to cutmarks on modern human skeletons known to have been defleshed with stone tools.
(17) RAF and French warplanes had “facilitated” the butchery, the despot’s corrupt and inhumane regime was gone, “friendly” rebels were in charge, and gung-ho TV news channels were there to record the celebrations.
(18) The human bones show clear signs of butchery, implying that the bodies were stripped for meat and crushed for marrow before the heads were severed and turned into crockery.
(19) "But what has taken place in the AQA has been butchery.
(20) Her father was a South African Breweries executive who later ran his own butchery; her mother was a teacher.