Butcher
Butcher (buch"ẽr) , noun
[Old English bochere, bochier, Old French bochier, French boucher, orig., slaughterer of buck goats, from Old French boc, French bouc, a buck goat; of German or Celtic origin. See Buck the animal.]
1.
One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
2.
A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
Butcher of an innocent child.
Collocations (1)
Butcher's meat , such flesh of animals slaughtered for food as is sold for that purpose by butchers, as beef, mutton, lamb, and pork.
Butcher ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
1.
To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
2.
To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. — Macaulay
[Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered.
3.
to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as, the new choir butchered the hymn.