Butch″er‐y (�), n. [OE. bocherie shambles, fr. F. boucherie. See Butcher, n.] 1. The business of a butcher.
2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak.
The perpetration of human butchery.
Prescott.
3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery.
Fabyan.
Syn. — Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre.