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butchery

[booch-uh-ree] / ˈbʊtʃ ə ri /


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Kakuta's restaurant has its own butchery, supplying bear meat dishes to a nearby hotel.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

It was there that I came to see the possibilities in a robust whole-animal butchery program and a more radical approach to sourcing ingredients.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2025

Signs of butchery on the bones, along with stone tools and other evidence, indicate that Taguatagua 3 represents a temporary camp established around the task of processing the large carcass.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

Crawley's 189 at Old Trafford, an unstoppable butchery of baggy green, was one of the great Ashes knocks anywhere, ever.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

“This we have heard. And yet Your Radiance has found the courage to answer butchery with mercy. You have not harmed any of the noble children you hold as hostage.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin