Definition of Slaughterer

1. Noun. A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market.

Exact synonyms: Butcher
Specialized synonyms: Knacker
Generic synonyms: Skilled Worker, Skilled Workman, Trained Worker
Derivative terms: Butcher, Slaughter

Definition of Slaughterer

1. n. One who slaughters.

Definition of Slaughterer

1. Noun. Agent noun of slaughter; one who slaughters. ¹

2. Noun. A butcher (as a profession or job). ¹

3. Noun. A ritual slaughterer, kosher slaughterer, kosher butcher, shochet / shokhet. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slaughterer

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaughterer

slatterns
slatterpouch
slatters
slattery
slatting
slattings
slatts
slaty
slaty-breasted tinamou
slaty-breasted tinamous
slaty anaemia
slaught
slaughter
slaughterdom
slaughtered
slaughterer (current term)
slaughterers
slaughterhall
slaughterhalls
slaughterhouse
slaughterhouses
slaughtering
slaughterman
slaughtermen
slaughterous
slaughterously
slaughterperson
slaughters
slaughtre
slaughts

Literary usage of Slaughterer

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

1. Jewish Code of Jurisprudence: Talmudical Law Decisions, Civil, Criminal and by Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Jacob Louis Kadushin (1915)
"A slaughterer of cattle or poultry who decides that it was slaughtered according to law and that it ..."

2. The Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre (1915)
"CHAPTER III A SCIENTIFIC slaughterer THE Wasp has told us part of her secret by showing us the spot which her sting touches. Does this solve the question? ..."

3. The Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre (1915)
"CHAPTER III A SCIENTIFIC slaughterer THE Wasp has told us part of her secret by showing us the spot which her sting touches. Does this solve the question? ..."

4. Greece Revisited, and Sketches in Lower Egypt, in 1840: With Thirty-six by Edgar Garston (1842)
"... governor of Hydra—slaughterer of the Mam- louks — Sir E. Lyons — Farewell to Athens—Veteran gunner of Miaoulis—Reduction of the navy. ..."

5. The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical by Hugh James Rose, Samuel Roffey Maitland (1837)
"... [slaughterer] at Southampton, appearing before me to be re-examined respecting his qualifications, according to custom, was then and there charged with ..."

6. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland: And by John Condie Stewart Sandeman (1905)
"—The fact that on several occasions of emergency a horse-slaughterer has ... A person carrying on the business of a slaughterer of cattle (including pigs) ..."

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