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Schlachter — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • butcher noun A person whose trade is preparing and selling meat.
  • slaughterer noun A butcher (as a profession or job).

Senses

Schlachter is used for these senses in English:

  • butcher A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  • butcher (figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  • pigsticker A pork butcher.
  • slaughterer one who slaughters.
  • slaughterman A man employed to slaughter animals in a slaughterhouse.

butcher — full definition

  1. noun A person whose trade is preparing and selling meat.
  2. noun Someone who kills brutally or without mercy.
  3. verb To slaughter animals and cut up the meat for sale.
  4. verb To ruin or botch something badly.

slaughterer — full definition

  1. noun A butcher (as a profession or job).
  2. noun A ritual slaughterer, kosher slaughterer, kosher butcher, shochet / shokhet.

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