(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.
Slaughter
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of killing.
(v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
(v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
(v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
(v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
(2) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
(3) 10 data are presented from the results of slaughtering.
(4) The results do not favour the possibility that transient motor reactions exhibited by swine during pre-slaughter CO2-exposure are manifestations of emotional stress.
(5) Australia is hoping to put a permanent end to Japan's annual slaughter of hundreds of whales in the Southern Ocean, in a landmark legal challenge that begins this week.
(6) In spite of small corpora lutea and increased follicular activity, none of the prednisolone treated heifers showed signs of oestrogen influence, and the two animals slaughtered 26 days after the start of treatment, did not ovulate or show signs of oestrus.
(7) In the 46 herds in which only the adult stock were slaughtered, 11 herds suffered breakdowns.
(8) Carcasses were subjected to low voltage electrical stimulation at slaughter.
(9) Chartainvilliers) given either chopped (CL) or ground (1.96 mm screen) and pelleted (PL), was measured in a comparative slaughter experiment.
(10) A total of 855 pig lungs were collected at slaughter and evaluated macroscopically.
(11) The simple method of retrograde flushing of spermatozoa from the epididymal cauda of slaughter bulls yielded an average of 2 x 10(9) spermatozoa from one cauda.
(12) It was demonstrated that Salmonella could survive in the slaughter hall, whereas Campylobacter died off, probably due to its vulnerability to drying conditions and its inability to grow at temperatures below 30 degrees C. Campylobacter was not isolated from the carcasses after cooling.
(13) Hopefully it could be just a week 7.03pm Michel texts Adam Smith thanks for your patience today 9.31pm Michel texts Adam Smith are you publishing the Slaughters and May opinion tomorrow?
(14) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
(15) In general, as far as the investigated blood variables are concerned, there were distinct and significant differences in the mean values between farm and slaughter blood-samples.
(16) Campbell said that if all signatories to the convention killed as many minke whales as Japan does, then more than 83,000 would be slaughtered in the Southern Ocean every year.
(17) More than 28,000 cattle were slaughtered in 2012 at a cost of £100m to taxpayers.
(18) A survey of gastrointestinal nematodes in Georgia cattle was conducted from 1968 through 1973 from actual worm counts from viscera of 145 slaughtered beef cattle or from egg counts made from fecal samples from 3,273 beef and 100 dairy cattle.
(19) 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.
(20) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.