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2 definitions found 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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