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ˈslaughtery|ˈslɔːtərɪ|
[f. slaughter n., after butchery.]
1. Slaughter.
1604Drayton Moses Map Miracles 62 Death is discern'd triumphantlie in Armes, On the rough Seas his slaughterie to keepe. 1610Marcelline Triumphs Jas. I, 9 That slaughtery, butchery, and all their massacres..are to him most horrid and hateful. 1648[see sense 2]. 1904Hardy Dynasts I. vi. iii. 196 If it indeed must be That this day Austria smoke with slaughtery, Quicken the issue as Thou knowest how.
2. A slaughter-house.
1648Symmons Vindic. 191 Masters of a Slaughtery will they be called, because they delight so much in the slaughtery of mankind. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 181 A Slaughtery for killing of Beasts. 1917G. J. Nicholls Bacon & Hams 26 The exporting slaughteries or factories. Ibid., There is appointed to each slaughtery at least one veterinary officer who acts as inspector. |