'Butchery' definitions:

Definition of 'butchery'

From: WordNet
noun
A building where animals are butchered [syn: abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse]
noun
The business of a butcher [syn: butchery, butchering]
noun
The savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery]

Definition of 'Butchery'

From: GCIDE
  • Butchery \Butch"er*y\, n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F. boucherie. See Butcher, n.]
  • 1. The business of a butcher. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The perpetration of human butchery. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. --Fabyan. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre. [1913 Webster]