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- English Word Butcher Definition A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
- English Word Butcher Definition To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
- English Word Butcher Definition To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
- English Word Butcher's broom Definition A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
- English Word Butchered Definition of Butcher
- English Word Butchering Definition of Butcher
- English Word Butchering Definition The business of a butcher.
- English Word Butchering Definition The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
- English Word Butcherliness Definition Butchery quality.
- English Word Butcherly Definition Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell.
- English Word Butchery Definition The business of a butcher.
- English Word Butchery Definition Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.
- English Word Butchery Definition A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
- English Word Butler Definition An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
- English Word Butlerage Definition A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king.
- English Word Butlership Definition The office of a butler.
- English Word Butment Definition A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.
- English Word Butment Definition The mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge, by which the extreme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported.
- English Word Butt Definition Alt. of But
- English Word Butt Definition To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- English Word Butt Definition To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
- English Word Butt Definition To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
- English Word Butt Definition A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
- English Word Butt Definition The common English flounder.
- English Word Butt hinge Definition See 1st Butt, 10.
- English Word Butt joint Definition A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.
- English Word Butt shaft Definition An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow.
- English Word Butt weld Definition See Butt weld, under Butt.
- English Word Butte Definition A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
- English Word Butted Definition of But