abattoir

noun

ab·at·toir | \ ˈa-bə-ˌtwär

How to pronounce abattoir (audio)

, -ˌtwȯr, -ˌtȯr\

Definition of abattoir

: slaughterhouse

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Frank Lee bucked free from the back of a delivery truck chauffeuring him to his doom at a small abattoir in Brooklyn in April 2016. — Zolan Kanno-youngs, WSJ, "Escape From New York: Slaughterhouse Refugees Have a Country Place," 1 Oct. 2018 That first scene describes, in graphic detail, the slaughter of a 700-pound pig in an abattoir in Gascony, France. — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, "Can We Eat Meat Ethically? Ask Butcher-Memoirist Camas Davis," 25 July 2018 And an abattoir in Scotland that slaughters about 60 percent of the pigs there has transported some of its animals to locations in neighboring England because the company had run out of carbon dioxide. — Amie Tsang, New York Times, "U.K. Fears for Its Beer and Crumpets. Blame a Carbon Dioxide Shortage.," 29 June 2018 Scotland’s biggest pig abattoir was forced to close because of shortages of the gas, which is used to stun the animals before slaughter. — Billy Perrigo, Time, "Brits Are Running Low on Crumpets and Beer as CO2 in Short Supply," 2 July 2018 Even Nancy Meyers' happy kitchens are foodie abattoirs in their way. — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, "Jonathan Gold recommends 10 food-centric films," 3 May 2018 Back then on Fulton, actual meatpackers, not the glossy magazine-friendly Publican Quality Meats butchers, hosed down the sidewalks in front of their abattoirs. — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, "At BLVD, you'll find approachable fine dining in a glamorous setting," 6 Oct. 2017 The transition from abattoir to a lab that built life-saving robots seemed fitting. — Caroline Lester, The Atlantic, "What Happens When Your Bomb-Defusing Robot Becomes a Weapon," 26 Apr. 2018 The abattoir in Baringo has been running for almost two years, slaughtering hundreds of donkeys a day to satisfy Chinese demand. — The Economist, "Saving assesAfricans want to sell donkey skins. Western charities want to stop them," 8 Mar. 2018

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