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▪ I. ˈbutchering, vbl. n.
[f. butcher v. + -ing1.]
1. The trade or occupation of a butcher.
1860O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner (1887) 28 A great, hulking fellow, who had been bred to butchering.
2. The action of killing in the manner of a butcher. lit. and fig. Also attrib.
1604J. Williams Ballads fr. MSS. I. 53 Thexecutioners playde there butchringe partes. 1613Bp. Hall Holy Panegyr. 79 Here hath been..no Bonner-ing or Butchering of Gods Saints. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii. 125 The Soldier wears openly, and even parades, his butchering-tool. 1865Bushnell Vicar. Sacr. iv. i. 395 Every woman, every child, looked on at the butchering.
3. The slaughtering of cattle. Also attrib., as butchering cow.
1773in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1920) XV. 63, I expect one more steer from the Island; the last we had from thence was..miserably mangled in the butchering. 1900Daily News 10 Apr. 8/6 Fat butchering cows.
▪ II. ˈbutchering, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That butchers; that kills wantonly or in cold blood.
1775Warren in Harper's Mag. Oct. (1883) 736/1 The butchering hands of an inhuman soldiery. 1816Southey Poet's Pilgr. iv. xliii, From butchering strife Deliver'd. |
