Found 3 items, similar to Butchery.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: butchery penjagalan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: butchery butchery n 1: a building where animals are butchered [syn: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse] 2: the business of a butcher [syn: butchering] 3: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Butchery Butchery \Butch"er*y\, n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F. boucherie. See Butcher, n.] 1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The perpetration of human butchery. --Prescott. [1913 Webster] 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. --Fabyan. [1913 Webster] Syn: Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre. [1913 Webster]