slaughtering

slaughtering
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  • Slaughtering — Slaughter Slaugh ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slaughtered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slaughtering}.] 1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. [1913 Webster] Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • slaughtering — noun ( s) Etymology: from gerund of slaughter (II) : the butchering of animals for food custom slaughtering usually includes the weighing of dressed carcasses L.E.Zraick …   Useful english dictionary

  • slaughtering — slaugh·ter || slÉ”tÉ™(r) / slɔː n. killing of an animal; brutal killing of a person; mass killing of animals or humans, carnage, massacre; overwhelming defeat (Informal) v. butcher an animal; murder a person; indiscriminately kill a large… …   English contemporary dictionary

  • slaughtering — The killing of an animal for food. Shain v Armour & Co. (DC Ky) 50 F Supp 977. Killing brutally or in large numbers, whether of people or animals …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • Music for a Slaughtering Tribe — Studio album by :wumpscut: Released December 20, 1993 Recorded 1993 …   Wikipedia

  • handling, slaughtering or dressing — An expression pertaining to labor relations, meaning work in reference to the processing of meat and poultry concluded when the product is placed in the cooler, thus not including packing, loading, grading, or shipping. Shain v Armour & Co. (DC… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • man-slaughtering — …   Useful english dictionary

  • meat processing — Slaughtering and butchering livestock in the preparing of the various parts of the carcass for distribution and sale, the process ending when the meat is placed in the cooler. Shain v Armour & Co. (DC Ky) 50 F Supp 907 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • SHEḤITAH — (Heb. שְׁחִיטָה), the Jewish method of slaughtering permitted animals or birds for food. The underlying principle of the procedure is to kill the animal in the swiftest and most painless way possible by cutting horizontally across the throat,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Dhabihah — Part of a series on Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) …   Wikipedia

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