Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
butcher
IPA transcription: [b'ʊtʃɚ]
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
butcher, slaughter
Meaning:
kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
Usage examples
Close by the town she met a butcher, who asked:
It is a partition made by the butcher, which kills that which it divides.
To me there's always the smell of the meat about a butcher. But it's as you're made.
"Are you aware, Lady Isabel, that an order such as that would only puzzle the butcher?
"Never was a poor man so thoroughly hoaxed as this butcher," says Tallemant des Reaux.
The meal was nearly over, when Peter came in, and said the butcher had come up for orders.
He came as a Butcher: but gravely declared, When the ship had been sailing a week, He could only kill Beavers.
Thereafter he only brought them things which she could better enjoy, that is sugar, grapes, raisins, and butcher's meat.
Locusts' legs often dangle, emptied of their succulent contents, on the edges of the web, from the meat-hooks of the butcher's shop.
Yet still, ever after that sorrowful day, Whenever the Butcher was by, The Beaver kept looking the opposite way, And appeared unaccountably shy.