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Definition of Slaughterhouse
1. Noun. A building where animals are butchered.
Generic synonyms: Building, Edifice
Derivative terms: Butcher
Definition of Slaughterhouse
1. n. A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Definition of Slaughterhouse
1. Noun. A place where animals are slaughtered. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) The scene of a massacre. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slaughterhouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaughterhouse
Literary usage of Slaughterhouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... the navel and the groin ; There drave he in his spear; and o'er it prone The
other bow'd, and gasp'd, like some strong ox Slow to a slaughterhouse ..."
2. A Treatise on Code Pleading and Practice: Also Containing 1900 Forms Adapted by William Angus Sutherland (1910)
"Against continuance of slaughterhouse. Form No. 785. From using or occupying a
building erected by the defendant, CD, on the east side of ... street, ..."
3. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Great Britain Magistrates' cases, Edward William Cox (1873)
"Pursuant to that consent, the slaughterhouse was made. Everything up to that
point appears to be regular, and it is in consequence of the operation of the ..."
4. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1879)
"and manage the slaughterhouse, and of persons to use it or slaughter cattle in
the burgh or bring the carcasses of cattle within it, fell to be regulated by ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"The proceedings and regulations of a board of health In abating the defendant's
slaughterhouse business as dangerous to the public health and a nuisance do ..."
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