(n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
(n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
(v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
(v. t.) To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
(2) The types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) were similar in warts of butchers from these slaughterhouses and of 63 butchers from various slaughterhouses all over the country.
(3) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.
(4) A friend heard the butcher boast five shillings that he would be let off again by the tribunal, for the sixth time.
(5) The 2 Fat Butchers in Walmer offers high-quality free-range meat and excellent pork pies and scotch eggs.
(6) The Butcher's Arms pub in Herne village, Kent, was saved by community investment.
(7) 14 butcher's shops' wastepipes were sampled 54 times.
(8) The meat preserves had been prepared in a butcher's shop and heated in a "cooking pot", the steam holes of which had been stopped up and the lid of which had been made heavier in order to reach a temperature above 100 degrees C. Inadequate sterilization and errors in processing are suggested as possible causes.
(9) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
(10) Butcher added that numbers had increased over the last four to six months.
(11) The infectious agent, S. typhi-murium, was isolated not only from several inmates but also from sick cows of the farm belonging to the home, in animal feed, from employees of the local butcher's shop, and finally in sludge from the local sewage plant.
(12) In football, it is wounded centre-back Terry Butcher, his bloodied, bandaged head and claret-and-white shirt in an England World Cup qualifier against Sweden in Stockholm in 1989.
(13) We had an ice-cream parlour, a locksmith, a butcher, a tailor, a baker, a deli, a vegetable stand ...
(14) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
(15) That should be that but he makes an absolute hash of his clearance, slicing it like a butcher with a big piece of meat.
(16) Two practices involving interaction with the environment appeared to be protective: butchering of cattle by the family for home consumption, and protection of the infant from flies by a veil during napping.
(17) They had “butchered the international tourism market for our greatest tourism attraction, not for the reef but for political ideology” and “threatened to kill off thousands more jobs in the resource industry”, he said.
(18) For a girl who left school at 15 and started work in a Fife butcher's shop, my aunt had done well.
(19) Danny Knowles was then signed on loan from Grays Athletic, and played for a number of games; after his loan expired, Lee Butcher was brought in on loan from Tottenham; at the end of his loan James Pullen was brought in on loan from Eastleigh.
(20) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
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.