| 单词 | slaughter-pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslaughter-pit b. Attributive, with words denoting a place used for slaughtering, as slaughter-pen, slaughter-pit, slaughter-place, slaughter-room, slaughter-shop, slaughter-yard. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun] > slaughter-house flesh housec1000 butchery1340 slaughterhousec1374 flesh-shamblesa1410 fleshhewery1483 shambles1548 slaughtery1648 slaughter-pen1688 shamble1885 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > abattoir slaughterhousec1374 slaughter-yard1688 abattoir1809 the Yards1865 saladero1870 freezing works1889 chicken factory1893 1688 J. Bunyan Good News for Vilest of Men 4 Jerusalem was now become the Shambles, the very Slaughter-shop for Saints. 1796 Deb. Congr. U.S. 28 Dec. (1849) 1720 Georgia was a slaughter-pen during the war. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 271 Ere we reach yon fatal slaughter-place. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 8/2 Slaughter-rooms, built of stone. 1856 W. G. Simms Charlemont ii. 27 These lads..raise hogs for the slaughter-pen. 1878 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 151 For the first time in the history of this agency Indians have been induced..to perform the labor of the slaughter-pen. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 218 All that's a turn too good for making slaughter-yard bacon, does for the Chinamen. 1897 Daily News 24 Feb. 5/2 The troops who have just entered the city found many of these slaughter pits. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War iv. 37 The casualties caused by the mine were sixty or more. Cuinchy..was a slaughter-yard. 1968 T. Kinsella Nightwalker 28 Pigs in a slaughteryard that turn and savage each other. < as lemmas |
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