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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