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Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The business of a butcher.

Hough :: Hough (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot..

Butcherly :: Butcherly (a.) Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.

Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..

Butchered :: Butchered (imp. & p. p.) of Butche.

Cart :: Cart (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc..

Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts..

Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An American shrike (Lanius Ludovicianus), similar to the butcher bird, but smaller. See Shrike..

Reedling :: Reedling (n.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird..

Offal :: Offal (n.) The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.

Matagasse :: Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.

Butcher''s Broom :: Butcher's broom () A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll..

Mattages :: Mattages (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.

Butcher :: Butcher (n.) One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food..

Butchering :: Butchering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butche.

Shamble :: Shamble (n.) A place where butcher's meat is sold.

Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..

Joint :: "Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting..

Rump :: Rump (n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef..

Shrike :: Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher..

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