butchery : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: butchery	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for butchery
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
butchery n a building where animals are butchered [syn: abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse] the business of a butcher Synonym(s): butchery, butchering the savage and excessive killing of many people Synonym(s): slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butchery \Butch"er*y\, n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F. boucherie. See {Butcher}, n.] 1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.] 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. --Shak. 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}.