Synonyms:
abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse
Meaning: a building where animals are butchered
Synonyms:
shambles
Meaning: a condition of great disorder
Usage examples
It had been intended to keep me in waiting, until the return of Lord Jeffreys, from that awful circuit of shambles, through which his name is still used by mothers to frighten their children into bed.
For grub meant gold to our thinking, and all that could walk must pack; The sheep for the shambles stumbled, each with a load on its back; And even the swine were burdened, and grunted and squealed and rolled, And men went mad in the moment, huskily clamoring "Gold!"