1. butchery(n = noun.artifact) abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse - a building where animals are butchered;
is a kind of building, edifice
Derived form verb butcher1
2. butchery(n = noun.act) butchering - the business of a butcher;
is a kind of business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise
has parts: slaughter
Derived form verb butcher1
3. butchery(n = noun.act) carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter - the savage and excessive killing of many people;
is a kind of execution, murder, slaying
has particulars: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, alamo, battle of little bighorn, battle of the little bighorn, custer's last stand, little bighorn
Derived form verb butcher1
1. The business of a butcher. [1913 Webster]
2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"The perpetration of human butchery." [1913 Webster]
3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. [1913 Webster]
"Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery." [1913 Webster]
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)
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