butcher
11Butcher — Boning redirects here. For the use of this term in corsetry, see Bone (corsetry). For other uses, see Butcher (disambiguation). Butcher A butcher s, Tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (XIV (14th) century) …
12butcher — In some regions of Australia butcher is a name for a measure of beer or the glass holding it. The first use of butcher recorded in The Australian National Dictionary is in the 1889 W.R. Thomas publication, Early Days: Over a good fat butcher of… …
13butcher — I UK [ˈbʊtʃə(r)] / US [ˈbʊtʃər] noun [countable] Word forms butcher : singular butcher plural butchers * 1) someone whose job is to sell meat and sometimes also to kill animals for meat. The shop they work in is called a butcher s or a butcher s… …
14butcher — [[t]b ʊtʃə(r)[/t]] butchers, butchering, butchered 1) N COUNT A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies. 2) N COUNT: oft the N A butcher or a… …
15butcher — n. & v. n. 1 a a person whose trade is dealing in meat. b a person who slaughters animals for food. 2 a person who kills or has people killed indiscriminately or brutally. v.tr. 1 slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food. 2 kill (people) wantonly …
16butcher — n. a family butcher (BE) ( a butcher s business run by a single family ); ( a butcher s business that sells retail rather than wholesale ) * * * [ bʊtʃə] a family butcher ( a butcher s business run by a single family ; BE) …
17butcher — butch|er1 S3 [ˈbutʃə US ər] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: bouchier, from bouc male goat ] 1.) someone who owns or works in a shop that sells meat 2.) the butcher s a shop where you can buy meat 3.) someone who has killed someone else… …
18butcher's — n British a look. Nearly always in the phrases have a butcher s or take a butcher s (at this) . From the rhyming slang expression butcher s hook , which is at least eighty years old and is still heard in the unabbreviated form …
19butcher — noun a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop. ↘a person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food. ↘a person who kills brutally. verb 1》 slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food. ↘kill (someone) brutally. 2》 ruin… …
20butcher — [ˈbʊtʃə] noun [C] I someone whose job is to sell meat. The shop they work in is called a butcher s or a butcher s shop. II verb [T] butcher [ˈbʊtʃə] 1) to kill an animal and cut it up so that it can be eaten 2) to kill someone, often a lot of… …
