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 of slaughter; 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The main point, which Ebert elaborates on, is that 3-D is indeed just an imagination slaughterer.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Reel Fanatic 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Local farmers tap niche market for goat slaughter 2010

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