Meat retailer

Usage examples of butcher.

El Arish, eavesdropping on surrounding communications, Israeli soldiers turned the town into a slaughterhouse, systematically butchering their prisoners.

Kuno looks now like a butcher or a bikie, but his voice is mellow and grand, fine as it ever was.

His nose led him to a panetteria where stevedores were already buying hot ciabatta, before going on to a stall where a butcher was selling liver and tripe ragout from a steaming pot, at a copper a dip of the loaf.

There was a cobbler at his elbow, and a wheelwright, and a butcher, and one or two other aspiring gentlefolk from the market fringe.

Ben grabbed one boy-about eight or nine comand turned him around-very carefully The boy had a butcher knife in one hand.

Had Coy not butchered one of the curtains and pinned the piece of lace to the front of her dress, Bethany might have been the object of bold hands, as well.

Their livestock was butchered, but the crofter and his family were saved the sword.

Gwyon had been butchered by disaffectionate Indians whose myth he had tried to replace with his own.

Galean soldiers, led by the Queen of Galea herself, hunted down the butchers of Ebinissia, and killed them to a man.

There were criticisms in it referring sometimes to dangerous ideas -- spoken even by a cardinal, in Holland or Belgium, he forgot which -- or written by a priest who had a Teutonic name which put Father Quixote in mind of Luther -- but he paid little attention to such criticisms, for it was very unlikely that he would have to defend the orthodoxy of the Church against the butcher, the baker, the garagist or even the restaurant keeper who was the most educated man in El Toboso except for the Mayor, and as the Mayor was believed by the bishop to be an atheist and a Communist, he could safely be ignored as far as the doctrine of the Church was concerned.

Dusty had been murdered, when she had lain helplessly and watched as Gleen butchered a terrified, equally helpless little boy.

The pork butcher is usually a very poor cook, but as he is cheap, poor people are willingly satisfied with him, and these resorts are considered very useful to the lower class.

Or, for that matter, who knows what Holk and his butchers will do, when they get the news.

Jefferson had come from him or from the three sailors butchered by Hsiao earlier.

He sent Butcher to show Dr Maturin the temperature at the surface, and ten and at fifty fathoms, together with the hygrometrical readings and a message to the effect that Captain Aubrey was obliged to stay on deck.