c. 1300, from Anglo-French boucher, from Old French bochier "butcher, executioner" (12c., Modern French boucher), probably literally "slaughterer of goats," from bouc "male go [..]

1560s, from butcher (n.). Related: Butchered; butchering. Re-nouned 1640s as butcherer.

person who cuts, prepares, and sells meat and meat products.

a retailer of meat kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" a brutal indiscriminate murderer a person who slaught [..]

a man who cuts up meat and sells it

katsef (katsovim)

To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long and fatal sickness in your family. To see a butcher cutting meat, your character will be dissected by society to your detriment. Beware of writing letters or documents.   

; Boucher (French); Beccaio (old Italian)

(n) a retailer of meat(n) a brutal indiscriminate murderer(n) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market(n) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence(v) kill (animals) usually for foo [..]

iuguolo, macellarius, trucido

The Butcher. Achmed Pasha was called djezzar (the butcher), and is said to have whipped off the heads of his seven wives. He is famous for his defence of Acre against Napoleon I.

A person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, cut their flesh into saleable portions, sell their meat, or any combination of these tasks.

, sb. the parten or shore crab, Carcinus mœnas.

  Colloquialism to indicate a bad misplay: “He butchered the hand.”

cuts meats and prepares them for cooking.