Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person employed in slaughtering; a butcher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who slaughters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofslaughter ; one who slaughters. - noun A
butcher (as a profession or job). - noun A ritual slaughterer, kosher slaughterer, kosher butcher,
shochet / shokhet.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
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Examples
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Here is more -- a lot more -- about the pishtacos (pistaku), an alternate word for a monstrous figure in folk mythology in Peru: the ñaqak, Quechua for "slaughterer" or "sacrificer".
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Here is more--a lot more--about the pishtacos pistaku, an alternate word for a monstrous figure in folk mythology in Peru: the ñaqak, Quechua for "slaughterer" or "sacrificer".
Ñakaq attack 2009
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He only comes into his own when crowned, turning Macbeth into a berserk, snickering slaughterer who is prey to nightmarish fantasies: most sensationally when he imagines Banquo's ghost slitting his throat.
Macbeth - review 2011
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The main point, which Ebert elaborates on, is that 3-D is indeed just an imagination slaughterer.
Reger Ebert's dead right: 3-D just sucks (insert your own funny noun here) Reel Fanatic 2010
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We hear it in the ravings of Baruch Goldstein, the slaughterer of Muslims at the Cave of the Patriarchs in 1994.
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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This budding sub-sector of the meat industry caters to Muslims who want to follow their faith's rules -- to be certain that the animal has been slaughtered humanely with a knife to the throat, that the animal is pointed toward Mecca and that it dies as the slaughterer recites a prayer.
Business caters to Muslim immigrants seeking to fulfill ritual animal sacrifices 2010
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This budding sub-sector of the meat industry caters to Muslims who want to follow their faith's rules -- to be certain that the animal has been slaughtered humanely with a knife to the throat, that the animal is pointed toward Mecca and that it dies as the slaughterer recites a prayer.
Business caters to Muslim immigrants seeking to fulfill ritual animal sacrifices 2010
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The main point, which Ebert elaborates on, is that 3-D is indeed just an imagination slaughterer.
Archive 2010-05-01 Reel Fanatic 2010
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This budding sub-sector of the meat industry caters to Muslims who want to follow their faith's rules -- to be certain that the animal has been slaughtered humanely with a knife to the throat, that the animal is pointed toward Mecca and that it dies as the slaughterer recites a prayer.
Business caters to Muslim immigrants seeking to fulfill ritual animal sacrifices 2010
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This budding sub-sector of the meat industry caters mainly to Muslims who want to follow their faith's rules -- to be certain that the animal has been slaughtered humanely with a knife to the throat, that the animal is pointed toward Mecca and that it dies as the slaughterer recites a prayer.
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