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butcher

noun as in meat killer, seller

verb as in slay and prepare animal for meat

verb as in ruin

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Bill, full name William Poole, was a real life butcher, skilled with knives and raised in the art of street fighting.

They could fix things and grow things and work with animals and do medical things and butcher pigs and put up preserves.

His family ran a butcher shop in a part of town so tough that their specialty was broken leg of lamb.

It is sold by the pound, cut to order, and presented not on a plate but on a sheet of butcher paper.

One veteran tiger butcher, who was turned into the authorities, was reported to have killed more than ten tigers since 2007.

A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog.

A butcher's boy, running against a gentleman with his tray, made him exclaim, "The deuce take the tray!"

She's too old for beef, or the butcher would; and she makes out to get her livin' without botherin' nobody much.

For all his vaunted scorn of being a butcher at a price, now that he heard the price he seemed not half so scornful.

A butcher scalds a hog to make the hair come off more easily (Bell).

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On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to butcher, such as: processor, skinner, slaughterer, meatmarket person, and meat person.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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