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Definition of Butcher shop
1. Noun. A shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Butcher Shop
Literary usage of Butcher shop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania by John Newton Boucher, John Woolf Jordan (1906)
"He opened a butcher shop and has conducted it since in a very successful manner.
Mr. Jones is a director and stockholder in the First National Bank of ..."
2. Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources by Thomas James, Aesop, John Tenniel (1848)
"A DOG had stolen a piece of meat cut of a butcher's shop, and was crossing a
river on his way home, when he saw his own shadow reflected in the stream below ..."
3. The Horse of America in His Derivation, History and Development by John Hankins Wallace (1897)
"At a short distance before coming to the house she had to pass a butcher's shop;
the dog threw himself down (being led by a string). and neither coaxing nor ..."
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