Definition of abattoir
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Livestock in those days arrived at Jefferson City's riverfront, whereupon the animals were driven to abattoirs dispersed citywide, thus allowing butchers to slaughter as needed and sell the fresh meat promptly to local clientele.
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And the Trumps have being doing business in this financial abattoir for years.
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Some of the beef from those abattoirs was found to have abscesses caused by a...
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To be fair, this is a problem built into the play, which like all of Shakespeare’s tragedies begins with astonishing rhetoric and ends as an abattoir.
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Traditionally, cattle fairs and markets allow the sale of animals headed to abattoirs to provide raw materials used in dozens of industries, including leather making, soap and fertilizer.
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In Butterton, Staffordshire, a villager mistook him for a journalist investigating a scandalous local abattoir.
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The cosmos, often portrayed as beautiful and beguiling, is here a ghoulish abattoir.
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Zimbabwe, where donkeys are less common, turned down an application to build a donkey slaughterhouse, while Ethiopia closed its only functioning donkey abattoir after residents complained about the stench and pollution.
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