English-Thai Dictionary

butchery

N การ ฆ่า อย่าง โหดร้าย ทารุ ณ  kan-ka-yang-hod-rai-tha-run

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUTCHERY

n.The business of slaughtering cattle for the table or for market. 1. Murder, especially murder committed with unusual barbarity; great slaughter.
2. The place where animals are killed for market; a shambles, or slaughter-house; also, a place where blood is shed.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BUTCHERY

Butch "er *y, n. Etym: [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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

butchery

butch er y |ˈbo͝oCHərē ˈbʊtʃəri | ▶noun ( pl. butcheries ) the savage killing of large numbers of people. • the work of slaughtering animals and preparing them for sale as meat. ORIGIN Middle English (denoting a slaughterhouse or meat market ): from Old French boucherie, from bouchier ‘butcher. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

butchery

butch |ery |ˈbʊtʃəri | ▶noun ( pl. butcheries ) [ mass noun ] 1 the work of slaughtering animals and preparing them for sale as meat. • [ count noun ] Brit. a slaughterhouse. • [ count noun ] Brit. a butcher's shop. 2 the savage killing of large numbers of people. ORIGIN Middle English (denoting a slaughterhouse or meat market ): from Old French boucherie, from bouchier ‘butcher ’.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

butchery

butchery noun 1 the butchery trade: meat selling, meat retailing. 2 Brit. the cattle were taken to the butchery: abattoir, slaughterhouse; Brit. knacker's yard; archaic shambles, butcher-row. 3 Brit. the truck crashed into a butchery and a florist's: butcher's, butcher's shop, meat market, meat counter. 4 the butchery in the trenches in the First World War: slaughter, massacre, slaying, murdering, murder, mass murdering, homicide, blood shedding.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

butchery

butch er y /bʊ́tʃ (ə )ri /名詞 複 -ies 1 U 虐殺 .2 U 食肉処理業 .3 C ｟英 ｠食肉処理場 (slaughterhouse ).