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Definition of Butchery

1. Noun. A building where animals are butchered.

2. Noun. The business of a butcher.

3. Noun. The savage and excessive killing of many people.

Definition of Butchery

1. n. The business of a butcher.

Definition of Butchery

1. Noun. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse. ¹

2. Noun. (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse. ¹

3. Noun. The butchering of meat. ¹

4. Noun. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. ¹

5. Noun. (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accouterments of being a butch lesbian. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Butchery

1. wanton or cruel killing [n -ERIES]

Medical Definition of Butchery

1. 1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, especially. When committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. "The perpetration of human butchery." (Prescott) 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. "Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery." (Fabyan) Synonym: Murder, slaughter, carnage. See Massacre. Origin: OE. Bocherie shambles, fr. F. Boucherie. See Butcher. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Butchery

butcheress butcheresses butcheries butchering butcherings butcherknife butcherknives butcherliness butcherly butchers

butchers' knife butchers' paper butchers knife butchershop butchershops butches butchest butching butchings butchly

butchness butchnesses butchy bute butea gum butea kino butenafine butenal butene

Literary usage of Butchery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Animals' Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress by Henry Stephens Salt, Albert Leffingwell (1894)
"Now, on the very face of it, this amateur butchery is, in one sense, the most wanton and indefensible of all possible violations of the principle of ..."

2. China's New Constitution and International Problems by Min-chʻien T. Z. Tyau (1918)
"Unabashed butchery Such being the law, it is difficult to see how the German ... This method of attack is not war; it is butchery and murder in cold blood. ..."

3. History of the Huguenot Emigration to America by Charles Washington Baird (1885)
"The others—one hundred and fifty in number—hoping against hope, threw themselves upon the compassion of one to whom the butchery word had no meaning. ..."

4. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... at another of Mr. Jefferson's Estates—Devastation and butchery—List of Jefferson's Losses from Farm Book—The dying Slaves—• Jefferson's Provocations to ..."

5. Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja by Eugene Schuyler (1876)
"... reinstated — The Divan—Foraging forbidden— Emancipation of the Persian slaves—Surveys—Reasons for the Turkoman campaign—butchery of the Turkomans—Story ..."

6. Travels in North America During the Years 1834, 1835 & 1836: Including a by Charles Augustus Murray (1839)
"Quarrel with him.—Desolate Prairie.—Prairie Dogs.—Owls and Rattlesnakes.—First View of Buffalo—Chase of Buffalo. — Indian butchery. ..."

7. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the Earliest Times Until the by Simon Dubnow (1920)
"THE ORGANIZED KISHINEV butchery Needless to say, there was plenty of inflammable material ... butchery."

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