butchery
a slaughterhouse.
brutal or wanton slaughter of animals or humans; carnage.
the trade or business of a butcher.
the act of bungling or botching.
Origin of butchery
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How to use butchery in a sentence
"Yesterday's butcheries have opened my appetite," cried Adam the Devil, brandishing his scythe.
The Iron Trevet or Jocelyn the Champion | Eugne SueI plead not for the Indian of Minnesota, after these most shocking, most appalling butcheries.
The butcheries are everywhere visited, his brewer is shut up, and his baker dead with his whole family.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles CreightonIt associated with the highest families of the realm horrors and butcheries of which the poorest had no cause even to dream.
The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel | W. G. BlaikieThese cold blooded butcheries would have done credit to the most cruel and blood thirsty of the primeval savages of the forest.
History of Kershaw's Brigade | D. Augustus Dickert
British Dictionary definitions for butchery
/ (ˈbʊtʃərɪ) /
the business or work of a butcher
wanton and indiscriminate slaughter; carnage
a less common word for slaughterhouse
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