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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slaughterhouse \Slaugh"ter*house`\, n. A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A place where animals are slaughtered. 2 (context figuratively English) The scene of a massacre.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A slaughterhouse or abattoir is a facility where animals are slaughtered for consumption as food for humans. Slaughterhouses that process meat not intended for human consumption are sometimes referred to as knacker's yards or knackeries, used for animals that are not fit for consumption or can no longer work on a farm such as horses that can no longer work.
Slaughtering animals on a large scale poses significant logistical problems, animal welfare problems, and public health requirements, and public aversion in many cultures influences the location of slaughterhouses.
Animal welfare and animal rights groups frequently raise concerns about the methods of transport, preparation, herding, and killing within some slaughterhouses under the example of animal rights activists such as Howard Lyman and Ric O’Barry.
A slaughterhouse is a facility where animals are killed.
Slaughterhouse may also refer to:
Slaughterhouse is a hip hop supergroup consisting of rappers Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Kxng Crooked and Royce da 5'9". They are currently signed to Shady Records under Interscope. They have released two studio albums as a group, the independently released Slaughterhouse and Shady Records backed, Welcome to: Our House.
Slaughterhouse is the self-titled debut studio album of hip hop supergroup, Slaughterhouse, consisting of members Crooked I, Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5'9". The album was released on August 11, 2009 on E1 Music and sold 18,600 copies in its first week.
Slaughterhouse is the first extended play by hip hop supergroup Slaughterhouse. It was released on February 8, 2011 through E1 Music. The album debuted at #132 on the Billboard charts, after having sold 5,100 copies.
Slaughterhouse is the debut studio album by American garage rock band Ty Segall Band, released on June 26, 2012 on In the Red Records. It is the only studio album fully credited to Segall's band, who often perform with him live.
"Slaughterhouse" is the thirteenth episode and finale of the third season of Justified. The episode's teleplay was written by executive producer Fred Golan from a story by series creator Graham Yost and was directed by Dean Parisot. It aired on April 10, 2012 and had 2.66 million viewers.
"Slaughterhouse" is the third episode of the second season of the American television drama series Hell on Wheels, which aired on August 26, 2012 on AMC. The thirteenth episode of the series is co-written by Jami O'Brien & Bruce Marshall Romans, and directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan. Bauer, the town butcher and friend of the deceased Schmidt, seeks to avenge his murder. His target: a bragging Mickey McGinnes ( Phil Burke) and his brother Sean ( Ben Esler). With no help from Elam ( Common), Lily ( Dominique McElligott) admits her involvement with Schmidt's murder to Durant ( Colm Meaney), who asks Cullen ( Anson Mount) to control the angry mob.
Usage examples of "slaughterhouse".
The young agent took the photographs of the girls and pinned them to the corkboard, just above the CAD diagram of the slaughterhouse.
After hours or days squeezed into trucks, dehydrated and awake the whole trip, the cows are thrown in with other cows in the feedlot outside the slaughterhouse.
I hear what I hear, even being led through the streets of Haarlem like a pig to the slaughterhouse.
A landscape of endless sheds and factories, with thick black smoke belching up from the slaughterhouse incinerators, as bones and hooves and other nonessentials were melted down to make glue.
You see, slaughterhouses are akin to nuclear installations as far as visitors are concerned.
Animals would be born in the cloning bays, live short, artificially fattened lives, and die in the attached slaughterhouses, without ever once seeing the outside world.
Margo looked up and down the street, where kosher slaughterhouses and butcher shops fought for space with tailors' establishments and bakeshops.
He had no doubt his weapons could turn that valley into a slaughterhouse, yet even with air support that many enemies might manage to break at least some of their number out of the zone.
He didn't know if it was bad whiskey, nights in the cellar, pig fever, iron bits, smiling roosters, fired feet, laughing dead men, hissing grass, rain, apple blossoms, neck jewelry, Judy in the slaughterhouse, Halle in the butter, ghost-white stairs, chokecherry trees, cameo pins, aspens, Paul A's face, sausage or the loss of a red, red heart.
Other causes for sorrow were the decisions of the Drake, North Dakota, school board to burn copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, and of the California Board of Education to require the teaching of Genesis on a parity with the Darwinian theory of evolution.
Attendants were grouped about in tense curiosity, eager to aid our memory by telling us how we came there, and we soon heard of the farmer who had found us at noon in a lonely field beyond Meadow Hill, a mile from the old burying ground, on a spot where an ancient slaughterhouse is reputed to have stood.
The gun deck of Carondelet suddenly took on the look of a slaughterhouse.
The processing equipment in the slaughterhouse had been completely dismantled although they'd have to have serious overcrowding before anyone who knew what had happened in that plant would live in it.
At this slaughterhouse, cattle were normally stunned with an electrical charge before being killed.
Most surgeons wore black frock coats not unlike the ones butchers wore in slaughterhouses.