butch·ery /ˈbʊʧri, ˈbʊʧə-/
 屠殺;屠場;肉販


 Butch·er·y n.
 1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.]
 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.
    The perpetration of human butchery.   --Prescott.
 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. [Obs.]
    Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery.   --Fabyan.
 Syn: -- Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre.

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 butchery
      n 1: a building where animals are butchered [syn: abattoir, shambles,
            slaughterhouse]
      2: the business of a butcher [syn: butchering]
      3: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter,
          massacre, mass murder, carnage]