a. Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. “The victim of a butcherly murder.” D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F. boucherie. See Butcher, n. ]
The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]