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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Butchering

· Butch·er·ing · IPA /bˈʊtʃərɪŋ/
01 n. The business of a butcher.
  1. 1.
    The business of a butcher.
  2. 2.
    The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
    “That dreadful butchering of one another.” Addison.