Butcher

·vt To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.

II. Butcher ·vt To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

III. Butcher ·noun One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

IV. Butcher ·noun A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.

butcher
n. South Australian slang for a longdrink of beer, so-called (it is said) because the men of acerta...

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chicken butcher
A poulterer. ...

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butcher-bird
n. The name is in use elsewhere,but in Australia it is applied to the genus Cracticus.The varieties...

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Butcher, Samuel Henry
LL.D., etc. (b. 1850) Scholar. Prose Translation of the Odyssey (1879), with A. Lang, Some Aspects...

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Butcher Hall Lane
See King Edward Street. ...

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Butcher Row, East Smithfield
South-east from Upper East Smithfield to Lower East Smithfield (Lockie's Topog. 1810-Elmes' Topog. D...

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Butcher Row, Aldgate High Street
On the south side of Aldgate High Street, east from the Minories. ...

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