butchery
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butchery englanniksi
The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3)
An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
1899 ''On the third Friday Jimmie was dropped at the door of the school from the doctor's buggy. The other children, notably those who had already passed over the mountain of distress, looked at him with glee, seeing in him another lamb brought to butchery.'' — Stephen Crane, ''an Orator|Making an Orator''.
1901 ''There was good grass on the selection all the year. I’d picked up a small lot—about twenty head—of half-starved steers for next to nothing, and turned them on the run; they came on wonderfully, and my brother-in-law (Mary’s sister’s husband), who was running a butchery at Gulgong, gave me a good price for them.'' — Henry Lawson, ''Double Buggy at Lahey Creek|A Double Buggy at Lahey Creek''.
The butchering of meat.
(quote-book)
A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
''This week’s impossible-to-pronounce word: Catania. Granted, it’s a little trickier than Palermo, but there was no excusing the verbal butchery that ensued.'' —blog.
A market
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