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butchery

[booch-uh-ree]

noun

plural

butcheries 
  1. a slaughterhouse.

  2. brutal or wanton slaughter of animals or humans; carnage.

  3. the trade or business of a butcher. butcher.

  4. the act of bungling or botching.



butchery

/ ˈʊʃəɪ /

noun

  1. the business or work of a butcher

  2. wanton and indiscriminate slaughter; carnage

  3. a less common word for slaughterhouse

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of butchery1

1300–50; Middle English bocherie < Anglo-French, Middle French boucherie. See butcher, -y 3
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Like many a movie serial killer, Tucker isn’t just interested in murdering his prey — he wants to make something artistic out of his butchery.

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A member of the public had told the authority of their concerns and environmental health officers found rat droppings in "all food handling and storage areas, particularly in the butchery and basement".

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Encountering “Macbeth” during a time when the federal government appears to be under attack from within, I watched with heightened horror Macbeth’s descent into paranoid butchery after he murders Duncan and assumes the throne.

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It was there that I came to see the possibilities in a robust whole-animal butchery program and a more radical approach to sourcing ingredients.

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“And at some point we opened the window… and the stench was like a butchery… Like in the market, where it's not very clean.”

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