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butcher

N คน ขาย เนื้อ คน ฆ่า สัตว์ ขาย คน ชำแหละ เนื้อสัตว์ kon-kai-nuea

butcher

VT ฆ่า สัตว์ ขาย slaughter kha-sad-kai

butcherbird

N นก พวก หนึ่ง nok-puag-nueng

butchering

N การ ฆ่า สัตว์ ขาย karn-kar-sad-khai

butchers

SL การ มอง การ ดู kan-mong

butchery

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUTCHER

n. 1. One who slaughters animals for market; or one whose occupation is to kill animals for the table. The word may and often does include the person who cuts up and sells meat.
2. One who kills men, or commands troops to kill them; one who sheds, or causes to be shed human blood in abundance; applied to princes and conquerors who delight in war, or are remarkable for destroying human life.

BUTCHER

v.t.To kill or slaughter animals for food, or for market. 1. To murder; but emphatically applied to murder committed with unusual cruelty, or circumstances of uncommon barbarity.

BUTCHER-BIRD

n.The shrike; a genus of birds, called Lanius. One species of this genus is called king-bird, from its courage in attacking hawks and crows. The king-bird is now arranged under the genus Muscicapa.

BUTCHERLINESS

n.A cruel, savage, butcherly manner.

BUTCHERLY

a.[from butcher. ] Cruel; savage; murderous; grossly and clumsily barbarous.

BUTCHERS-BROOM

n.Ruscus; a genus of plants, called also knee-holly. It is used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks.

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

BUTCHER

Butch "er, n. Etym: [OE. bochere, bochier, OF. bochier, F. boucher, orig. , slaughterer of buck goats, fr. OF. boc, F. bouc, a buck goat; of German or Celtic origin. See Buck the animal. ]

1. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

2. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child. " Shak. Butcher bird (Zoöl.), a species of shrike of the genus Lanius.

Note: The Lanius excubitor is the common butcher bird of Europe. In England, the bearded tit is sometimes called the lesser butcher bird. The American species are L.borealis, or northernbutcher bird, and L. Ludovicianus or loggerhead shrike. The name butcher birdis derived from its habit of suspending its prey impaled upon thorns, after killing it. Butcher's meat, such flesh of animals slaughtered for food as is sold for that purpose by butchers, as beef, mutton, lamb, and pork.

BUTCHER

Butch "er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Butchered (; p. pr. & vb. n.Butchering. ]

1. To kill or slaughter (animals ) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. Macaulay. [Ithocles ] was murdered, rather butchered. Ford.

BUTCHERING

BUTCHERING Butch "er *ing, n.

1. The business of a butcher.

2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.

BUTCHERLINESS

BUTCHERLINESS Butch "er *li *ness, n.

Defn: Butchery quality.

BUTCHERLY

BUTCHERLY Butch "er *ly, a.

Defn: Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder. " D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

BUTCHER'S BROOM

BUTCHER'S BROOM Butch "er's broom `. (Bot. )

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

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

butcher

butch er |ˈbo͝oCHər ˈbʊtʃər | ▶noun 1 a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop. • a person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food: a pork butcher. • a person who kills or has people killed indiscriminately or brutally: a callous butcher of men. 2 informal a person selling refreshments, newspapers, and other items on a train or in a stadium or theater. ▶verb [ with obj. ] slaughter or cut up (an animal ) for food: the meat will be butchered for the local market. • kill (someone ) brutally: they butchered 250 people. • ruin (something ) deliberately or through incompetence: the film was butchered by the studio that released it. ORIGIN Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat, ’ probably of the same ultimate origin as buck 1 .

butcherbird

butch er bird |ˈbo͝oCHərˌbərd ˈbʊtʃərbərd | ▶noun 1 a shrike (family Laniidae ) that impales its prey on thorns. 2 a crowlike predacious Australasian songbird, with a heavy hook-tipped bill. Compare with magpie ( sense 2 ). [Family Cracticidae: three genera, in particular Cracticus, and several species. ] ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from its habit of impaling its prey on thorns.

butcher block

butch er block |ˈbʊtʃər ˌblɑk | ▶noun a material used to make kitchen countertops and tables, consisting of strips of hardwood glued together: a slab of butcher block | [ as modifier ] : a butcher-block table.

butcher knife

butch er knife ▶noun a large, broad-bladed knife used for cutting meat.

butcher's block

butch er's block |ˈbo͝oCHərz ˌbläk ˈbʊtʃərzblɑk | ▶noun a sturdy wooden kitchen table with a square top on which food may be chopped.

butcher's broom

butch er's broom ▶noun a low evergreen Eurasian shrub of the lily family, with flat shoots that give the appearance of stiff, spine-tipped leaves. [Ruscus aculeatus, family Liliaceae. ]

butcher's meat

butcher's meat (also butcher meat ) ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. fresh uncured meat excluding game and poultry.

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

butcher

butcher |ˈbʊtʃə | ▶noun 1 a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop. • a person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food: [ with modifier ] : a pork butcher. • a person who kills people indiscriminately or brutally. 2 N. Amer. informal a person selling refreshments, newspapers, etc. on a train or in a theatre. ▶verb [ with obj. ] slaughter or cut up (an animal ) for food. • kill (a person or people ) indiscriminately or brutally: they rounded up and butchered 250 people. • ruin (something ) deliberately or through incompetence: the film was butchered by the studio that released it. PHRASES have (or take ) a butcher's Brit. informal have a look. [ butcher's from butcher's hook, rhyming slang for a ‘look ’.]ORIGIN Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat ’, probably of the same ultimate origin as buck 1 .

butcher-bird

butcher-bird ▶noun 1 a shrike (family Laniidae ), which impales its prey on thorns. 2 a crow-like predatory Australasian songbird, with a heavy hook-tipped bill. Compare with magpie ( sense 2 ). ●Family Cracticidae: three genera, in particular Cracticus, and several species. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from its habit of impaling its prey on thorns.

butcher knife

butch er knife ▶noun a large, broad-bladed knife used for cutting meat.

butcher's block

butcher's block ▶noun a sturdy wooden kitchen table with a square top on which food may be chopped. • (also butcher block ) [ mass noun ] N. Amer. a material used to make kitchen worktops and tables, consisting of strips of wood glued together.

butcher's broom

butcher's broom ▶noun a low evergreen Eurasian shrub of the lily family, with flat shoots that give the appearance of stiff spine-tipped leaves. ●Ruscus aculeatus, family Liliaceae.

butcher's meat

butcher's meat (also butcher meat ) ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. fresh uncured meat excluding game and poultry.

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 ’.

American Oxford Thesaurus

butcher

butcher noun 1 a butcher's shop: meat seller, meat vendor, meat trader. 2 a callous butcher of men: murderer, slaughterer, killer, assassin; literary slayer; dated cutthroat, homicide. ▶verb 1 the goat was butchered: slaughter, cut up, carve up. 2 they butchered 150 people: massacre, murder, slaughter, kill, destroy, exterminate, assassinate; literary slay. 3 the studio butchered the film: spoil, ruin, mutilate, mangle, mess up, wreck; informal make a hash of, screw up, botch.

Oxford Thesaurus

butcher

butcher noun 1 a butcher's shop: meat seller, meat merchant, meat trader; slaughterer, slaughterman; Scottish archaic flesher. 2 a callous butcher of men: murderer, mass murderer, slaughterer, killer, assassin, serial killer, homicidal maniac, destroyer, terminator, liquidator; literary slayer; dated cut-throat, homicide. ▶verb 1 the goat was then butchered and skinned: slaughter, cut up, carve up, slice up, joint, prepare, dress. 2 they rounded up and butchered 150 people: massacre, murder, slaughter, kill, put to death, dispatch, dispose of, destroy, exterminate, liquidate, eliminate, terminate, assassinate, put to the sword, cut down, cut to pieces; literary slay. 3 the film was butchered by the studio: spoil, ruin, mar, mutilate, mangle, cut about, mess up, make a mess of, wreck; informal murder, make a hash of, muck up, screw up, louse up.

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

butcher

butch er /bʊ́tʃə r /名詞複～s /-z /C 1 肉屋の主人 [従業員 ]; 肉をさばく人 ; 食肉市場従業員 .2 〖しばしばthe ～'s 〗肉屋 ▸ go to the butcher's (shop ) for good meat 肉屋にいい肉を買いに行く 3 残忍な殺人者 ; 多くの部下を死なせた将軍 .4 ｟米｠(列車芝居小屋などの )売り子 .5 (やぶの )医者 .6 ｟俗｠へまをやる人 ; へぼ絵かき [職人 ].h à ve [t à ke ] a b ú tcher's (h ò ok )｟英俗｠ «…を » ちらっと見る «at » (!hookとlookの押韻 ) .the b ú tcher, the b á ker, the c á ndlestick-maker あらゆる職種の人 .動詞他動詞 1 〈家畜など〉を (さばいて )肉にする .2 〈人〉を殺戮（りく）する .3 ｟くだけて｠(へまをして )…をだめにする .～́ bl ò ck 肉切り台 .～́ kn ì fe 肉切り包丁 .～́ 's m è at 獣肉 .

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 ).