(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 ).
Look
Definition:
(v. i.) To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below.
(v. i.) To direct the attention (to something); to consider; to examine; as, to look at an action.
(v. i.) To seem; to appear; to have a particular appearance; as, the patient looks better; the clouds look rainy.
(v. i.) To have a particular direction or situation; to face; to front.
(v. i.) In the imperative: see; behold; take notice; take care; observe; -- used to call attention.
(v. i.) To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively.
(v. i.) To await the appearance of anything; to expect; to anticipate.
(v. t.) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
(v. t.) To seek; to search for.
(v. t.) To expect.
(v. t.) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence as, to look down opposition.
(v. t.) To express or manifest by a look.
(n.) The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look.
(n.) Expression of the eyes and face; manner; as, a proud or defiant look.
(n.) Hence; Appearance; aspect; as, the house has a gloomy look; the affair has a bad look.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(2) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(3) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(4) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(5) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
(6) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
(7) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
(8) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(9) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
(10) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(11) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
(12) It is therefore necessary, to look at typical clinical manifestations, i.e.
(13) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
(14) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(15) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
(16) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(17) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(18) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(19) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(20) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.