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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butchery \Butch"er*y\, n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr F.
boucherie. See {Butcher}, n.]
1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.]
2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual
barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. --Shak.
The perpetration of human butchery. --Prescott.
3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is
shed. [Obs.]
Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. --Fabyan.
Syn: Murder; slaughter; carnage. See {Massacre}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
butchery
n 1: a building where animals are butchered [syn: {abattoir}, {shambles},
{slaughterhouse}]
2: the business of a butcher [syn: {butchering}]
3: the savage and excessive killing of people [syn: {slaughter},
{carnage}]
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