Lexic.us

Definition of Pork butcher

1. Noun. A vendor of pork and products made from pork.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pork Butcher

Literary usage of Pork butcher

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

1. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"THE RETIRED PORK-BUTCHER AND THE SPOOK I MAY as well Proceed to tell About a Mister Higgs, Who grew quite rich In trade—the which Was selling pork and pigs. ..."

2. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghoṣa (1921)
"When the torment of the Great Hell of Avici uprose before the pork-butcher Cunda, his mode of behavior was altered in correspondence with his past deeds. ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1884)
"He was a pork- butcher in a small way. I believe he could write his name—my name—and that he always declared that his father was a Reynold too. ..."

4. Fonts and Font Covers by Francis Bond, Frederick Charles Eden (1908)
"As for schoolboys, a pork butcher was sitting at his door when three little ... Whereon the pork butcher confessed the murder, and St Nicholas restored the ..."

5. Fonts and Font Covers by Francis Bond, Frederick Charles Eden (1908)
"As for schoolboys, a pork butcher was sitting at his door when three little ... Whereon the pork butcher confessed the murder, and St Nicholas restored the ..."

6. Such Nonsense!: An Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1918)
"... PORK-BUTCHER AND THE SPOOK I may as well Proceed to tell About a Mister Higgs, Who grew quite rich In trade—the which Was selling pork and pigs. ..."

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