butchery
noun
butch·ery
ˈbu̇-chə-rē 
ˈbu̇ch-
plural butcheries
1
chiefly British
: slaughterhouse
2
: the preparation of meat for sale
3
: cruel and ruthless slaughter of human beings
4
: botch
Examples of butchery in a Sentence
the butchery of civilians during the war
butchery on a scale that horrified the civilized world
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Coins, bracelets, cutting devices for manicures and butchery, projectiles.
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Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Ho is the owner of the Royce, a downtown Detroit wine bar; Marrow, the award-winning restaurant and neighborhood butchery shop in Detroit’s West Village, and Marrow Birmingham on Hamilton Row in Birmingham.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Sow is bringing the same energy seen in the halal BBQ world to halal butchery.
—Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Neanderthals who lived in present-day Israel may have passed down local butchery techniques, and experiments indicated that late Pleistocene Neanderthals’ stable nitrogen-isotope ratios indicate not hypercarnivory but a diet rich in maggots.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Ho is the owner of the Royce, a downtown Detroit wine bar; Marrow, the award-winning restaurant and neighborhood butchery shop in Detroit’s West Village, and Marrow Birmingham on Hamilton Row in Birmingham.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Sow is bringing the same energy seen in the halal BBQ world to halal butchery.
—Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Neanderthals who lived in present-day Israel may have passed down local butchery techniques, and experiments indicated that late Pleistocene Neanderthals’ stable nitrogen-isotope ratios indicate not hypercarnivory but a diet rich in maggots.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Butchery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/butchery. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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