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Butcher

Butcher, a person who carries on the trade of killing animals, or of selling the flesh of such animals,

Butcherly

Like a butcher without compunction savage bloody inhuman fell

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Butcher

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

butcher bird

any species of shrike of the genus Lanius so called because they impale their prey on thorns

Butchers broom

A genus of plants Ruscus esp Ruscus aculeatus which has large red berries and leaflike branches See Cladophyll

Flesher

A butcher

Nine killer

The northern butcher bird

Shrike

kill mice small birds etc and often impale them on thorns and are on that account called also butcher birds See under Butcher

Unsound food

by a private individual, Giebler v. Manning, (1906) 1 KB 709. As to the position of a wholesale butcher when unsound meat is seized while in the possession of the retailer to whom he sold it, see

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