slaughterern.
/ˈslɔːtərə/ 1.
a. One who slaughters or kills.
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the world > life > death > killing > killer > [noun]
baneOE
quelmerOE
quellerOE
murderer1340
slaughtermana1350
slayerc1380
killer1535
dispatcher1549
executioner1597
slaughterer?1611
widowmakera1616
mactator1656
zapper1969
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 593 At his slaughterers Incensed Paris spent a lance.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 109 Thou do'st then wrong me, as yt slaughterer doth, Which giueth many Wounds, when one will kill. View more context for this quotation
1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 191 Nations all that time warring against those slaughterers.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad II. i. 98 The slaughterers of St. Bartholomew.
b. A powerful fighter or boxer.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer > types of
bruiser1744
ruffian1791
in-fighter1812
punisher1812
nobber1821
receiver general1821
slogger1829
slogster1881
ham1888
slaughterer1896
pushover1908
bum1917
mauler1920
palooka1920
round heel1926
set-up1926
powder puff1931
spoiler1948
kick-boxer1978
stiff1989
1896 A. Conan Doyle Rodney Stone xvii I've seen Jack Harrison fight five times, and I never yet saw him have the worse of it. He's a slaughterer, and so I tell you.
2. A killer of animals; a butcher.
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the world > life > death > killing > killer of animals > [noun]
slaughterman1389
dog-killer1592
slaughterer1648
buffer1699
pork butcher1763
knacker1812
serpenticide1817
vulpicide1826
piggicide1837
canicide1852
ursicidea1861
birdicide1866
insecticide1866
horse-knacker1937
pigeoneer1944
piscicide1953
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een slager der beesten, a Slaughterer.
1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling (1672) vi. 161 The Lamb looks cheerfully on the slaughterer.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iv. 352 I saw the cattle start..And with a piteous moaning vainly seek To fly the coming slaughterers.
1828 S. R. Maitland Let. to C. Simeon 28 One perhaps has been a singer in the synagogue;..a third, a slaughterer.
1868 Standard 15 Dec. 6 The [Jewish] slaughterer is not a butcher in the accepted sense of the term.
1881 Nation (N.Y.) 32 428 A tremendous slaughterer of the brute creation.
3. slang. A dealer who buys from small makers at extremely low prices.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > dealer buying at very low prices
slaughter-master1841
slaughterer1851
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 333/1 The ‘slaughterers’..buy at ‘starvation prices’.., the artificer being often kept waiting for hours.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 303/2 The slaughterer cared only to have them viewly and cheap.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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