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ˈslaughterman
Also 4 slaghter-, 4–5 slawter-, 6 slauter-.
[f. slaughter n.]
1. One who kills or slays; an executioner.
a1350St. Matthew 307 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 135 He þat was þaire slaghter man Vnto þe appostell playnly ran And bare him thurgh with-owten let. c1550Bale K. Johan (Camden) 92 To slea that beaste & slauterman of the devyll. 1577Bullinger Decades (1592) 64 He suffered..the torments of the slaughtermen, and death it selfe. 1611B. Jonson Catiline v. iv, All his aides Of ruffians, slaues, and other slaughter-men. 1680C. Ness Church Hist. 39 Some savage slaughter-men..to drown those males. 1869Spurgeon Treas. David Ps. ix. 12 Before the slaughtermen are permitted to smite the Lord's enemies. 1899Contemp. Rev. Sept. 439 Adventurers who had been hired on both sides as slaughter-men.
fig.a1658Cleveland Poems (1677) 118 O he's a terrible Slaughter-man at a Thanksgiving Dinner! 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 270, I know not whether it be from this killing disposition..that our satirists prove such very slaughter-men. 1784J. Berridge Wks. (1864) 412 Mr. Newton has fallen into the hands of a slaughter-man..Dr. Mayhew, who will certainly cleave him down the chine.
2. One whose work or occupation it is to kill cattle, etc., for food.
1389Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 49 Stipendia famulorum..: Slawterman, iis vjd. 1416–7Ibid. 613 Item in feodo del Slawterman. 1548Elyot, Bouicida, a slaughter man. 1624J. Davies Ps. xliv, Like sheep which Slaughter-men cull out to kill. 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 153 Houses for the Slaughter-men, Sea-men, and Fishers. 1722Lond. Gaz. No. 6048/4 Richard Gilbert,..Butcher and Slaughter⁓man. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 124 No bullock ever fell so clean from the hands of an experienced slaughterman. 1851–3Tomlinson's Cycl. Useful Arts (1866) I. 3/1 To give space for one slaughterman to dress a bullock. |