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2. Verb. (third-person singular of slaughter) ¹

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Definition of Slaughters

1. slaughter [v] - See also: slaughter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaughters

Literary usage of Slaughters

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

1. Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History: Delivered at by Eugene O'Curry (1861)
"4° onhe The chronological order of the specimens of tales that I have 'slaughters-, selected leads us next to the class called ..."

2. Publications (1848)
"Elijah's slaughters examined. Elijah's consuming the two captains and their cum- ... slaughters ..."

3. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"About his lips the gather'd foam he T churns, And, breathing slaughters, still with rage > But on the bleating flock his fury turns. ..."

4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"Thus the negotiation hangs fire; and will do so,—till dread- full waterspouts come, and perhaps quench it altogether 1 His Majesty slaughters 3602 Head of ..."

5. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"His Majesty slaughters 3602 Head of Wild Swine. His Majesty is off for a Hunting Visit to the Old Dessauer, —Crown-Prince with him, who hates hunting. ..."

6. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"His Majesty slaughters 8602 Head of Wild Swine His Majesty is off for a Hunting Visit to the Old Dessauer, —Crown-Prince with him, who hates hunting. ..."

7. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"His Majesty slaughters 3602 Head of Wild Swine His Majesty is off for a Hunting Visit to the Old Dessauer, —Crown-Prince with him, who hates hunting. ..."

8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"THE slaughters IN THE SOUDAN. NOTHING short of the general outburst of indignation which has just startled him would have availed to call Mr Gladstone from ..."

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