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BUTCHERY
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
(noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people
butchery, butchering
(noun) the business of a butcher
abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse
(noun) a building where animals are butchered
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
butchery (countable and uncountable, plural butcheries)
The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
(rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
The butchering of meat.
A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
A meat market
Etymology 2
Noun
butchery (countable and uncountable, plural butcheries)
(slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.
Source: Wiktionary
Butch"er*y, n. Etym: [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F. boucherie. See Butcher, n.]
1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.]
2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott.
3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. [Obs.] Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. Fabyan.
Syn.
– Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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