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▪ I. slaughtering, vbl. n.|ˈslɔːtərɪŋ|
[f. slaughter v.]
The action of the verb in various senses.
1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 646 By trecheries, poisonings, slaughtering, and such like Scythian kindnesses. 1649Milton Eikon. iv. Wks. 1851 III. 367 To turne his slashing at the Court Gate, to slaughtering in the Field. 1711in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 165 The slaughtering of a great number. 1819Shelley Cyclops 387 Axes for Aetnean slaughterings. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 7 Since the opening of the public abattoir, all private slaughtering..is strictly prohibited.
b. attrib., as slaughtering-house, slaughtering stock, etc.
1845Darwin Voy. Nat. iii. (1873) 56 The estancias and slaughtering-houses. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 280 His slaughtering stock before the knife would pine. 1891Month LXXII. 18 Ice-houses, slaughtering-yards.
▪ II. ˈslaughtering, ppl. a.
[f. as prec.]
1. That slaughters; killing, slaying.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. iii. 144 Hither hale that misbelieuing Moore, To be adiudg'd some direfull slaughtering death. 1592Soliman & Pers. iii. i, Inforce me sheath my slaughtering blade In the deare bowels of my countrimen. 1625Milton Death Fair Infant 68 To..drive away the slaughtering pestilence. 1679C. Ness Antichrist 211 Ministers have..ever been the sacrifices for slaughtering tyrants.
b. transf. or fig. (Cf. killing ppl. a.)
1811Sporting Mag. XXXVIII. 184 Having thus far described the slaughtering rounds of this fight. 1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. II. 303 A little master, working, as he called it, ‘at a slaughtering pace,’ for a warehouse. 1867F. Francis Angling (1880) 298 The most slaughtering way of fishing for grayling is with the grasshopper.
2. Of prices: Of the nature of a sacrifice; lower than is profitable.
1898Daily News 29 Mar. 9/4 In the export yarn trade there is a turn for the worse in values, owing to sales at slaughtering prices from stock.
Hence ˈslaughteringly adv.
1836E. Howard R. Reefer xxxvii, They waxed..cuttingly polite, then slaughteringly sarcastic. |