Butchering — Butch er*ing, n. 1. The business of a butcher. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. [1913 Webster] That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
butchering — butch·er || bÊŠtʃə n. meat cutter, meat slaughterer, owner of a meat shop; murderer v. kill, slaughter (an animal); murder indiscriminately … English contemporary dictionary
butchering — noun the business of a butcher • Syn: ↑butchery • Derivationally related forms: ↑butcher (for: ↑butchery) • Hypernyms: ↑commercial enterprise, ↑b … Useful english dictionary
Smith Butchering Machine — a machine used in canneries to remove the head, fins and guts of fish. Also called iron chink … Dictionary of ichthyology
Pig slaughter — Schematic representation of the main pork cuts. Pig slaughter is the work of slaughtering domestic pigs which is both a common economic activity as well as a traditional feast in some European countries. Contents … Wikipedia
Olsen-Chubbuck Bison Kill Site — The Olsen Chubbuck Bison kill site is located 10.5 miles to the southeast of the town of Firstview in Cheyenne County, Colorado. The Paleo Indian site dates back to an estimated 8000 6500 B.C. and provides evidence for bison hunting long before… … Wikipedia
Quaternary extinction event — Late Pleistocene landscape of northern Eurasia The Quaternary period saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly larger, especially megafaunal, species, many of which occurred during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch.… … Wikipedia
Bushmeat — (calque from the French viande de brousse ) is the term commonly used for meat of terrestrial wild animals, killed for subsistence or commercial purposes throughout the humid tropics of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. However, originally the term … Wikipedia
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Sty — A sty or pigsty is a small scale outdoor enclosure for raising pigs. It is sometimes referred to as a pigpen, pig parlor, or pig cote. Pigsties are generally fenced areas of bare dirt and/or mud. Both sty and pigpen are used as derogatory… … Wikipedia
