What is "abattoir"

Usage examples of "abattoir".

For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.

There were as many yellow-robed men and women watching over the abattoir as Nunk kept with him at the outer gate.

An office on wheels, closed wagons for supplies, what seems a parlour, one at least that is blood-fouled, a rolling abattoir, and beyond that a very tall and windowed wagon painted with pinchbeck gilt, slathered with symbols of the gods and Jabber.

They continued their purposeful walk along the corridors of Poulette Farms Poultry orporated toward the abattoir.

Kaspar has been becoming increasingly dependent upon him, spending more and more time in that abattoir Varen calls home.

An airburst could turn an open trench into an abattoir, and guns and dogs were even more vulnerable.

An abattoir, which you might expect on the main road outside the town, but one of those branches of Barclays as well presumably there was a main office in town.

Even now the children were being shown around the Carinthian Municipal Abattoir and perhaps that would get them to give some decent performances.

As is the fashion in some parts of the city, most of these buildings had shops in their lower levels, though they had not been built for the shops but as guildhalls, basilicas, arenas, conservatories, treasuries, oratories, artellos, asylums, manufacturies, conventicles, hospices, lazarets, mills, refectories, deadhouses, abattoirs, and playhouses.

Now he slinks through the valley behind the abattoir, to the meatworks barber shoppe.

A stockade, a prison camp, stalag, ghetto, torture chamber, charnel house, abattoir, duchy, fiefdom, Army co-op mess hall ruled by a neckless thug.

Abattoir He cruised through an outlying neighborhood of decrepit houses: ruptured sidewalks, swaybacked steps, broken porch railings, aged and weathered walls.

If it were some favorite food thieved from the kitchen, for example, it would elicit a description of a meal at the House Absolute, and the kind of food I brought even governed the nature of the repast described: flesh, a sporting dinner with the shrieking and trumpeting of game caught alive drifting up from the abattoir below and much talk of brachets, hawks, and hunting leopards.

To confirm her hideous surmise, the double doors of one of the barns now opened and its inhabitants, comprised of the six-legged grazers and some other smaller and different types, were being herded to the abattoir by a curious mechanical which had long extendable ‘arms' and which spat electrical sparks at laggard beasts.

The Pavilion was a vast abattoir, an offal heap of inert shattered bodies, cracked concrete, splintered furniture, and all was covered with a thick, congealing patina of bright red blood.