Abattoir vs. Butcher

Abattoirnoun

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

Abattoirnoun

A place likened to a slaughterhouse.

Abattoirnoun

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

Abattoirnoun

a building where animals are butchered

Abattoirnoun

a slaughterhouse.

Butchernoun

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

Butchernoun

(figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

Butchernoun

A look.

Butchernoun

A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

Butcherverb

(transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

Butcherverb

(transitive) To kill brutally.

Butcherverb

(transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

Butchernoun

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

Butchernoun

A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.

Butcherverb

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

Butcherverb

To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.

Butcherverb

to bungle badly; to botch; - used also when an object is damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as, the new choir butchered the hymn.

Butchernoun

a retailer of meat

Butchernoun

a brutal indiscriminate murderer

Butchernoun

a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

Butchernoun

someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

Butcherverb

kill (animals) usually for food consumption;

Butcher

A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments.