Butch″er‐ly, a. Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. “The victim of a butcherly murder.” D. Webster.
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!
Shak.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.