(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 ).
Cleaver
Definition:
(n.) One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
Example Sentences:
(1) We could confirm Cleaver's results in finding dark repair replication very much reduced, not only in cultured fibroblasts, but also in epidermal cells and lymphocytes.
(2) Even then, she did everything well, it seemed; years later, she could still cut meat cleanly with a single cleaver stroke.
(3) The savagery of the murder on 22 May 2013, in which Rigby, 25, was repeatedly stabbed and hacked in the neck with a cleaver, tore at community relations.
(4) The ditziness, the choice between the good man and the bad boy (Darcy and Cleaver), the overbearing parents all seemed infantilising.
(5) Cleaver’s pregnancy confined her to a remote guesthouse for most of their stay.
(6) You Adebolajo sprinted towards the officers jettisoning the knife and carrying the cleaver above your head as if intent on attacking one or more of them, while you Adebowale went down the adjacent pavement and pointed the gun at the officers.
(7) Homologous displacement involving topoisomerase II alone provides a mechanism for the strand switching required in the models of Kato (1977) and Cleaver (1981) in which SCE occur between replicated double strands.
(8) I’ve been calling [McCarthy] for about two weeks,” Cleaver said.
(9) Last weekend a 54-year-old Indonesian maid was beheaded by sword for killing her female boss with a cleaver.
(10) The results of 200 chopping experiments with a big axe and a smaller cleaver on two different chopping-block levels were presented.
(11) There were liberation movements in Africa who read our paper and contacted us,” says Kathleen Cleaver.
(12) Carlos Clarke shot him as a wild romantic, a sexy figure with a threatening meat cleaver in his hand and the heat of the kitchen dripping down the walls.
(13) Police said that in each of the attacks, unidentified assailants hacked the victim to death with machetes or cleavers.
(14) These findings, plus earlier ones of Cleaver on the lack of repair replication in XP cells, raise the possibility that unexcised pyrimidine dimers can be implicated in the oncogenicity of ultraviolet radiation.
(15) Gary Younge My favourite moment was the spunky, rousing and quite eccentric contribution by the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Emanuel Cleaver.
(16) Griff also expanded the group's parameters, calling himself Minister of Information, the title Eldridge Cleaver held in the Black Panthers.
(17) (updated below) Two men yesterday engaged in a horrific act of violence on the streets of London by using what appeared to be a meat cleaver to hack to death a British soldier.
(18) The activist's nephew Chen Kegui faces a sentence ranging from 10 years in prison to the death penalty after he brandished a meat cleaver at intruders who burst into his home in Linyi, Shandong province, during the search for his uncle.
(19) A series of reagents containing 3- or 4-nitrobenzamido ligands tethered to 9-aminoacridine via variable-length linkers have been prepared and their properties as photochemical DNA cleavers (photonucleases) examined.
(20) On Thursday, I wrote about the London killing of a British soldier by two men using a meat cleaver.