SLAUGHTERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slaughterer mean? 

• SLAUGHTERER (noun)
  The noun SLAUGHTERER has 1 sense:

1. a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

  Familiarity information: SLAUGHTERER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAUGHTERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

butcher; slaughterer

Hypernyms ("slaughterer" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "slaughterer"):

knacker (someone who buys up old horses for slaughter)

Derivation:

slaughter (kill (animals) usually for food consumption)

 Context examples 

“I’ve seen Jack Harrison fight five times, and I never yet saw him have the worse of it. He’s a slaughterer, and so I tell you.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the slaughterer said he would do as she wished; and cut off the head, and nailed it up under the dark gate.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then tell one of your slaughterers to cut off the head of the horse I rode upon, for it was very unruly, and plagued me sadly on the road; but the truth was, she was very much afraid lest Falada should some day or other speak, and tell all she had done to the princess.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)