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Abattoir
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Example Sentences
- War work has made more than a few pacifists, in the way a visit to the abattoir makes vegetarians.
- The abattoir and the cattle truck are secret places safely hidden from the meat-eater's gaze and the child's story book.
- Deer composting is not the grotesque, open-air abattoir you might expect.
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World English Dictionary
| abattoir (ˈæbəˌtwɑː) | |
| —n | |
| another name for slaughterhouse | |
| [C19: French, from abattre to fell] | |
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Word Origin & History
abattoir
"slaughterhouse for cows," 1820, from Fr. abattre "to beat down" (see abate).
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