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butchery

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butch=er=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

butcheryn. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F. boucherie. See Butcher, n.].
  •  The business of a butcher.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
    "The perpetration of human butchery."  [1913 Webster]
  •  A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.  [1913 Webster]
    "Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery."  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

butchery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 needless or cruel slaughter (of people).
2 the butcher's trade.
3 a slaughterhouse.

Etymology
ME f. OF boucherie (as BUTCHER)

ROGET THESAURUS

butchery

Killing

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