Butchery

Quick meaning: Butchery is a noun meaning The butchering of meat.

Meaning

The butchering of meat.

More Meanings

1. A butcher's shop; a meat market.
2. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse.
3. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
4. (rare) An abattoir.
5. (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian.

Example Sentences

(coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses)

The tyrannous and bloody act is done,— The most arch deed of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of. Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn To do this piece of ruthless butchery

I often wondered how Walcott the director could stand listening to some of his marvelous words and phrases being subjected to verbal butchery as sometimes occurred when a player did not understand what he was speaking or reading.

This butchery begins in the first Japanese month. For this purpose they put the animal's head between two long poles, which are squeezed together by fifty or sixty people, both men and women. When the bear is dead they eat his flesh, keep the liver as a medicine

Word Forms

• butcheries

Synonyms for butchery

Depending on context, synonyms include butcher's, slaughter, slaughtering, slaughterhouse, slaughtery, carnage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include abattoir, butchering, slaughterhouse, slaughter, shambles, carnage.

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