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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Butchery \Butch"er*y\, n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F.
boucherie. See {Butcher}, n.]
1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.]
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2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual
barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. --Shak.
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The perpetration of human butchery. --Prescott.
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3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is
shed. [Obs.]
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Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. --Fabyan.
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Syn: Murder; slaughter; carnage. See {Massacre}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
butchery
n 1: a building where animals are butchered [syn: {abattoir},
{butchery}, {shambles}, {slaughterhouse}]
2: the business of a butcher [syn: {butchery}, {butchering}]
3: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn:
{slaughter}, {massacre}, {mass murder}, {carnage},
{butchery}]
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