butcher
/ˈbʊt͡ʃɚ/ noun B1- A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- A look.
Plural butchers
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And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!
“Are we all jackals, to fawn on this cattle butcher?
She was going to the butcher’s, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.”
## The Oxen and the Butchers
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