slaughterer

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Instead, she said, a slaughterer told her the goat he killed at Macfarlane’s was black and white, not white and brown like Cedar.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2024

Chun Woo-won, 27, said military strongman Chun Doo-hwan was a "sinner and slaughterer".

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2023

“They go from being a slaughterer of mice to a couch potato,” says Eva Maria-Geigl, an evolutionary geneticist who oversaw the study with molecular biologist Thierry Grange, both at the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris. 

From Science Magazine • Jun. 19, 2017

His grandfather, Marcus Landau, was a “boot and shoe manufacturer, kosher slaughterer, grocer, scholar, mystic, mathematician and inventor” who fathered 17 children.

From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2015

Addressing the slaughterer of his species, the bird said, 'I shall gratify thee.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan